Give Me Your Heart (film)

Give Me Your Heart (film)
Directed by	Archie Mayo
Screenplay by	Casey Robinson
Based on	Sweet Aloes 1934 play by Jay Mallory
Produced by	Robert Lord Hal B. Wallis
Starring	Kay Francis George Brent Roland Young Patric Knowles
Cinematography	Sidney Hickox
Edited by	James Gibbon
Music by	Heinz Roemheld
Production company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	September 17, 1936 (1936-09-17)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Give Me Your Heart was a 1936 American drama film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Kay Francis, George Brent and Roland Young. It was a melodrama based on the 1934 London play Sweet Aloes, by Joyce Carey. ^[1] Leading lady Kay Francis, playing the familiar role of a self-sacrificing mother, had a difficult working relationship with the director throughout the making of the film. ^{[2] [3]}

Plot

A young Englishwoman has a relationship with a married man.

Main cast

• Kay Francis as Belinda Warren
• George Brent as Jim Baker
• Roland Young as Tubbs Barrow
• Patric Knowles as Robert Melford
• Henry Stephenson as Edward - Lord Farrington
• Frieda Inescort as Rosamond Melford
• Helen Flint as Dr. Florence Cudahy
• Halliwell Hobbes as Oliver
• Zeffie Tilbury as Esther Warren
• Elspeth Dudgeon as Alice Dodd

References

1. Alan Goble The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film 1999 Page 780-"GIVE ME YOUR HEART 1936 d: Archie Mayo. USA., Sweet Aloes, Jay Mallory, London 1934, Play
2. Daniel Bubbeo The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 Leading Ladies, with Filmographies for Each 2001 "Her next film, Give Me Your Heart (1936), playing her umpteenth self-sacrificing mother, was a less expensive film to mount, but still was responsible for red ink on Warners' ledgers. Through filming of Give Me Your Heart, Kay had a stormy relationship with director Archie Mayo, whom she felt did not have a good grip on the material."
3. Lynn Kear, John Rossman Kay Francis: A Passionate Life and Career 2006 Page 92 "Give Me Your Heart was a melodrama, for sure —with George Brent again— but done well, and Kay's performance rang true. Though she.. [photo, caption Even Kay was dismayed by this outfit from Give Me Your Heart ]".

External links

• Give Me Your Heart at IMDb
• Give Me Your Heart at the TCM Movie Database
• Give Me Your Heart at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films