Kiss Me Kate (film)
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| Directed by | George Sidney |
| Produced by | Jack Cummings |
| Written by | Dorothy Kingsley |
| Starring |
Kathryn Grayson Howard Keel Ann Miller |
| Music by |
Cole Porter (songs) Saul Chaplin (score) André Previn Conrad Salinger |
| Cinematography | Charles Rosher |
| Edited by | Ralph E. Winters |
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Release date
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November 26, 1953 |
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Running time
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109 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English French Italian |
| Budget | $1,981,000 |
| Box office | $3,117,000 |
Kiss Me Kate is a 1953 MGM film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name.
Inspired by The Taming of the Shrew, it tells the tale of musical theater actors, Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi, who were once married and are now performing opposite each other in the roles of Petruchio and Katherine in a Broadway-bound musical version of William Shakespeare's play.
Already on poor terms, the pair begin an all-out emotional war mid-performance that threatens the production's success. The only thing keeping the show together are threats from a pair of gangsters, who have come to collect a gambling debt from the show's Lucentio, Bill Calhoun. In classic musical comedy fashion, slapstick madness ensues before everything is resolved.
Dorothy Kingsley's screenplay, which was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award, was adapted from the musical's book by Samuel and Bella Spewack. The songs were by Cole Porter, with musical underscoring by Saul Chaplin and André Previn, who were nominated for an Academy Award. Hermes Pan choreographed the dance routines.
The movie was filmed in 3-D using the most advanced methods of that technique then available. Devotees of the stereoscopic 3-D medium usually cite this film as one of the best examples of a Hollywood release in polarized 3D.
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