Diamond Horseshoe

Diamond Horseshoe
Directed byGeorge Seaton
Written byGeorge Seaton
Kenyon Nicholson (play)
Produced byWilliam Perlberg
StarringBetty Grable
Dick Haymes
CinematographyErnest Palmer
Edited byRobert L. Simpson
Music byHerbert W. Spencer (uncredited)
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • May 2, 1945 (1945-05-02)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2.6 million[1]
Box office$3,150,000 (US)[1][2]

Diamond Horseshoe (also billed as Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe) is a 1945 American musical film starring Betty Grable, Dick Haymes and William Gaxton (in his final feature film role), directed and co-written by George Seaton, and released by 20th Century Fox. It was filmed in Technicolor in Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe, a nightclub located in the basement of the Paramount Hotel. The film's original score is by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon, introducing the pop and jazz standard "The More I See You".[3]

  1. ^ a b Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck to all producers at 20th Century Fox, 13 June 1946, Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck, Grove Press, 1993, pp. 108–109
  2. ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 220
  3. ^ Monahan, Patrick.The Diamond Horseshoe, the World War II-Era Nightclub Resurrected by Randy Weiner and Simon Hammerstein. Vanity Fair. January 24, 2014. Retrieved May 12, 2020.