| Mother Wore Tights | |
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| Directed by | Walter Lang |
| Screenplay by | Lamar Trotti |
| Based on | Mother Wore Tights 1944 novel by Miriam Young |
| Produced by | Lamar Trotti |
| Starring | Betty Grable Dan Dailey Mona Freeman |
| Narrated by | Anne Baxter |
| Cinematography | Harry Jackson |
| Edited by | J. Watson Webb Jr. |
| Music by | Frank Burt David Buttolph |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $5,000,000 [1][2][3] |
Mother Wore Tights is a 1947 American Technicolor musical film starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey as married vaudeville performers, directed by Walter Lang.[4]
This was Grable and Dailey's first film together, based on a book of the same name by Miriam Young. It was the highest grossing film of Grable's career up to this time, earning more than $5 million at the box office. It was also 20th Century Fox's most successful film of 1947.
Alfred Newman won the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture. Josef Myrow (music) and Mack Gordon (lyrics) were nominated for Original Song ("You Do"), while Harry Jackson was nominated for Color Cinematography.
- ^ "All-Time Top Grossers", Variety, 8 January 1964 p 69
- ^ "Top Grossers of 1947", Variety, 7 January 1948 p 63
- ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 221
- ^ "Mother Wore Tights". FilmAffinity. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved 11 January 2016.