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This Time for Keeps

 
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This Time for Keeps

  • Director: Richard Thorpe
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Musical
  • Movie Type: Romantic Comedy, Musical Comedy
  • Themes: Musician's Life
  • Main Cast: Esther Williams, Johnny Johnston, Lauritz Melchior, Jimmy Durante, Xavier Cugat
  • Release Year: 1947
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 105 minutes

Plot

In this aqueous musical comedy, an opera singer brings his son to Michigan's Mackinac Island where the son falls in love with the star of the "aquacaper." It is difficult to woo her as she is constantly surrounded by her piano-playing bodyguard and her ever-present grandmother. It's musical and comedic chaos as the son attempts to overcome these and other obstacles while trying to win her heart. Highlights include Jimmy Durante singing his trademark tune "Inka Dinka Do." Other songs include: "M'Appari" from "Martha," "La Donna E Mobile" from "Rigoletto," Cole Porter's "You Are So Easy to Love," "A Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That," "Chiquita Banana," and "When It's Lilac Time on Mackinac Island." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

Dame May Whitty - Grandma; Sharon McManus - Deborah; Mary Stuart - Frances; Ludwig Stossel - Peter; Dorothy Porter - Merle; Tommy Wonder - Himself; Nella Walker - Mrs. Allenbury; Holmes Herbert - Norman; Esther Dale - Mrs. Fields; Chris Drake - Soldier at Pool; Anne Francis; Don Garner - Soldier; Herbert Heywood - Doorman; Jack Perrin - Bobby-Soxer; Duncan Richardson - Duncan; Robert E. Strickland; Kenneth Tobey; Harry Tyler - Bartender; William Tannen; Dick Simmons - Gordon Coome

Credit

Randall Duell - Art Director, Cedric Gibbons - Art Director, Stanley Donen - Choreography, Richard Thorpe - Director, John D. Dunning - Editor, George Stoll - Composer (Music Score), George Stoll - Musical Direction/Supervision, Karl W. Freund - Cinematographer, Joe Pasternak - Producer, Henry W. Grace - Set Designer, Edwin B. Willis - Set Designer, Arnold A. Gillespie - Special Effects, Erwin S. Gelsey - Screen Story, Gladys Lehman - Screenwriter, Loraine Fielding - Short Story Author
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