| You're a Sweetheart | |
| Starring: | Alice Faye George Murphy Ken Murray |
| Director: | David Butler |
| Producer: | Buddy G. DeSylva |
| Music: | Charles E. Henderson. Songs: Jimmy McHugh (music), Harold Adamson (lyrics) |
| Cinematography: | George Robinson |
| Editing: | Bernard W. Burton |
| Studio: | Universal Pictures |
| Distributor: | Universal Pictures |
| Runtime: | 96 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $800,000[1] |
You're a Sweetheart is a 1937 American musical film directed by David Butler and starring Alice Faye, George Murphy and Ken Murray. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures who had Alice Faye on loan from 20th Century Fox to headline the film. It was remade in 1943 under the title Cowboy in Manhattan.
You're a Sweetheart was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Jack Otterson.[2] [3]
A big and important Broadway theatre producer is opening his new big show. He is alarmed when he discovers his new show opens on the same night as a charity convention. He decides to lie about the tickets already being sold, so the show will be more alluring.
Universal paid 20th Century Fox $40,000 to use Alice Faye plus $26,500 when filming was extended.[1]