| This Time for Keeps | |
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| Directed by | Richard Thorpe |
| Screenplay by | Gladys Lehman Hans Wilhelm (uncredited) |
| Story by | Erwin S. Gelsey Lorraine Fielding |
| Produced by | Joe Pasternak |
| Starring | Esther Williams Jimmy Durante Lauritz Melchior Johnnie Johnston |
| Cinematography | Karl Freund |
| Edited by | John D. Dunning |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Loew's, Inc. |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,648,000[1] |
| Box office | $4,406,000[1] |
This Time for Keeps is a 1947 American romantic musical film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante, Johnnie Johnston and opera singer Lauritz Melchior. 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.
The film was shot in color and partly on location at the Grand Hotel, on Mackinac Island in Michigan.[2]
This Time for Keeps became the second film in which Williams's name was first billed above the title, after Fiesta.[2]
- ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- ^ a b "Turner Classic Movies - TCM.com". prod.tcm.com.