Do You Love Me (film)

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Do You Love Me
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Screenplay by Robert Ellis
Helen Logan
Dorothy Bennett (additional dialogue)
Frank Gabrielson (uncredited)
Story by Bert Granet
Produced by George Jessel
Starring Maureen O'Hara
Dick Haymes
Harry James
Cinematography Edward Cronjager
Edited by Robert L. Simpson
Music by David Buttolph
Production
company
Distributed by20th Century-Fox
Release date
  • May 17, 1946 (1946-05-17)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2,550,000 [1]
Box office$3 million (US rentals) [2] [3]

Do You Love Me is a 1946 American Technicolor musical romance film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Maureen O'Hara, Dick Haymes and Reginald Gardiner . [4] [5] The film also features band leader Harry James and his Orchestra. It was produced and distributed by 20th Century-Fox. Betty Grable makes a cameo at the end of the film. At the time Harry James was married to contracted Fox star Betty Grable.

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Plot

Jimmy Hale, a successful singer, chases Katharine "Kitten" Hilliard, a prim music-school dean who transforms herself into a desirable, sophisticated lady after traveling to the big city. Trumpeter and bandleader Barry Clayton also pursues Katharine. [6]

Cast

Production

The film was known also known as Kitten on the Keys and budgeted at $1.8 million. Zanuck disliked the footage and ordered reshoots that cost an extra $750,000. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "'Keys' jangled Zanuck". Variety. August 22, 1945. p. 3.
  2. "60 Top Grossers of 1946", Variety 8 January 1947 p8
  3. Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 221
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  5. "Do You Love Me". AFI. afi.com . Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  6. "Turner Classic Movies - TCM.com" . Retrieved July 6, 2016.