Do You Love Me (film)

Do You Love Me
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	20th Century-Fox
Distributed by	20th Century-Fox
Release date	May 17, 1946 (1946-05-17)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
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.

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

• Maureen O'Hara as Katherine 'Kitten' Hilliard
• Dick Haymes as Jimmy Hale
• Harry James as Barry Clayton
• Reginald Gardiner as Herbert Benham
• Richard Gaines as Ralph Wainwright
• Stanley Prager as Jay Dilly
• Betty Grable as Barry's Fan in Taxi

Production

The film was 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]

References

1. "'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
4. "Do You Love Me (1946 film)". FilmAffinity. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
5. "Do You Love Me". AFI. afi.com. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
6. "Turner Classic Movies - TCM.com". Retrieved July 6, 2016.

External links

• Do You Love Me at IMDb
• Do You Love Me at the TCM Movie Database
• Do You Love Me at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films