Escape Me Never (1947 film)

Escape Me Never
Directed byPeter Godfrey
Written byThames Williamson
Leonore Coffee
Based onEscape Me Never
1935 play and
The Fool of the Family
1930 novel
by Margaret Kennedy
Produced byHenry Blanke
StarringErrol Flynn
Ida Lupino
Eleanor Parker
CinematographySol Polito
Edited byClarence Kolster
Music byErich Wolfgang Korngold
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • November 7, 1947 (1947-11-07)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,900,000[1]
Box office$2.3 million (US rentals)[2] or $1,569,000[1]

Escape Me Never is a 1947 American melodrama film directed by Peter Godfrey, and starring Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker, and Gig Young.[3]

It is the second film adaptation (the first was in 1935) of the 1934 play Escape Me Never by Margaret Kennedy, which was based on her 1930 novel The Fool of the Family. That book was a continuation of her story of the fictional Sanger family of musical geniuses introduced in The Constant Nymph, but there is a disjunct among the books and the films: The Sanger brothers are never mentioned in the 1943 film of The Constant Nymph, and their names are changed in this picture.

  1. ^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31, p. 28 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  2. ^ "Top Grossers of 1947", Variety, 7 January 1948 p 63
  3. ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | ESCAPE ME NEVER (1947)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 2009-04-16. Archived from the original on 2009-02-05. Retrieved 2012-02-15.