| Escape Me Never | |
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| Directed by | Peter Godfrey |
| Written by | Thames Williamson Leonore Coffee |
| Based on | Escape Me Never 1935 play and The Fool of the Family 1930 novel by Margaret Kennedy |
| Produced by | Henry Blanke |
| Starring | Errol Flynn Ida Lupino Eleanor Parker |
| Cinematography | Sol Polito |
| Edited by | Clarence Kolster |
| Music by | Erich Wolfgang Korngold |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Top Grossers of 1947", Variety, 7 January 1948 p 63
- ^ "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.