This Time for Keeps
| This Time for Keeps | |
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Richard Thorpe |
| Produced by | Joe Pasternak |
| Written by |
Lorraine Fielding Erwin S. Gelsey Gladys Lehman Hans Wilhelm |
| Starring |
Esther Williams Jimmy Durante Lauritz Melchior Johnnie Johnston |
| Cinematography | Karl Freund |
| Edited by | John D. Dunning |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Release date
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October 17, 1947 |
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Running time
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105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,648,000 |
| Box office | $4,406,000 |
This Time for Keeps is an American romantic musical film released in 1947 and produced by MGM. It is about a soldier, returning home from war, who does not wish to work for his father's opera company or to continue his relationship with his pre-war lover.
It stars Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante, Johnnie Johnston and opera singer Lauritz Melchior and was directed by Richard Thorpe. The film was shot in color and partly on location at the Grand Hotel, on Mackinac Island in Michigan.
This Time for Keeps became the second film in which Williams's name was first billed above the title, after Fiesta.
Richard Herald (Lauritz Melchior) is a famous opera singer and father to Richard Herald II, who has recently returned from fighting in the war and now prefers to be known as Dick Johnson (Johnnie Johnston). Dick has been engaged to socialite Frances Allenbury (Mary Stuart) since before he left for the war, but has been expressing some apprehension about marrying her.
Mr. Herald wants his son to join him at the opera company, but Dick wants to enjoy his life now that he’s out of the army. Backstage at the theater, he sees a magazine featuring Leonora "Nora" Cambaretti, an aquacade star. Earlier, as it turns out, after Dick received an injury during the war, he stayed at a hospital where Leonora performed for the patients.
Dick had yet to have his bandages removed from his eyes and head, so he couldn’t see Nora. Other servicemen described her beauty to him, as her family’s friend, Ferdi Farro (Jimmy Durante), played on the piano. Thinking he was blind, Nora allowed Dick to touch her face and then kissed him, only to then find out that he was able to see.
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