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THIS TIME FOR KEEPS
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CREDITS
1947, 105 minutes, Technicolor.
Producer, Joe Pasternak; Director, Richard Thorpe; Screenplay, Gladys Lehman, Erwin Gelsey and Lorraine Fielding; Cinematography, Karl Freund; Choreography, Stanley Donen.
CAST
Leonora Cambarini, Esther Williams; Ferdi Farro, Jimmy Durante; Richard Herald, Lauritz Melchior; Richard Johnson, Johnnie Johnston; Grandma Cambarini, Dame May Whitty; Debra Cambarini, Sharon McManus; Gordon, Dick Simmons; Himself, Tommy Wonder; Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra.
SONGS
No Wonder They Fall In Love; Ten Percent Off by Ralph Freed and Sammy Fain; The Man Who Found the Lost Chord; A Little Bit Of This And a Little Bit Of That by Jimmy Durante; Inka Dinka Doo by Durante and Ben Ryan; Easy to Love by Cole Porter; Why Don't They Let Me Sing a Love Song?; Little Big Shot by Benny Davis and Harry Akst; I Love to Dance by Freed and Burton Lane; When It's Lilac Time On Mackinac Island by Leslie Kirk; I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time by Nevil Fleeson and Albert Von Tilzer; M'Appari by Flotow; La Donna E Mobile by Verdi.
PLOT SYNOPSIS
Ex-serviceman Dick Johnson (Johnny Johnston) is the son of famous opera singer Richard Herald (Lauritz Melchior), whose dream is to have his son follow in his operatic footsteps. Dick's passion for popular music alarms and dismays his father, who is further upset upon learning that Dick has fallen for Leonora Cambarini (Esther Williams), the glamorous star of an aquatic spectacle. Complications ensue between father and son and the two lovers until all is finally ironed out during a spectacular water ballet on Michigan's Mackinac Island.
NOTES
"Undeniably good-looking, but bereft of a single original idea, This Time for Keeps was a glossy and trivial boy-meets-girl story embroidered with a mixture of pop and classical music in producer Joe Pasternak's corny old way."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical
"The money spent on this production might easily have kept Mozart and Schubert alive and busy to the age of sixty, with enough left over to finance five of the best movies ever made. It might even have been invested in a good movie musical."
- James Agee
This Time For Keeps was one of the top-grossing films of 1947. See Box Office Hits
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