Do You Love Me (film)

Do You Love Me [sic] is a 1946 Technicolor musical film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Maureen O'Hara and Dick Haymes.[4][5] The film features band leader Harry James and his Orchestra (the Music Makers).

Do You Love Me
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGregory Ratoff
Screenplay byRobert Ellis
Helen Logan
Dorothy Bennett (additional dialogue)
Frank Gabrielson (additional dialogue) (uncredited)
Story byBert Granet
Produced byGeorge Jessel
StarringMaureen O'Hara
Dick Haymes
Harry James
CinematographyEdward Cronjager
Edited byRobert L. Simpson
Music byDavid Buttolph
Distributed byTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
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]

Betty Grable makes a surprise cameo at the end of the film. At the time Harry James was married to Betty Grable.

Plot summary

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

James and Grable were married at the time.

Production

The film was 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]

References
  1. "'Keys' jangled Zanuck". Variety. 22 August 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
  4. "Do You Love Me (1946 film)". FilmAffinity. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
  5. "Do You Love Me". AFI. afi.com. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
  6. "Turner Classic Movies - TCM.com". Retrieved 6 July 2016.
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