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Let's Make It Legal is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Sale released in USA on 31 october 1951 with Claudette Colbert

Let's Make It Legal (1951)

Let's Make it Legal

Let's Make It Legal
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Released in USA 31 october 1951
Length 1h17
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama,    Romantic comedy,    Romance
Rating61% 3.0504553.0504553.0504553.0504553.050455

Let's Make It Legal is a 1951 American comedy film made by Twentieth Century-Fox, directed by Richard Sale and produced by Robert Bassler from a screenplay by I.A.L. Diamond and F. Hugh Herbert, based on a story by Mortimer Braus entitled "My Mother-in-Law, Miriam". The music was by Cyril J. Mockridge and the cinematography by Lucien Ballard.

The film stars Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Zachary Scott, Barbara Bates, and Marilyn Monroe.

Synopsis

Hugh (Macdonald Carey) and Miriam Halsworth (Claudette Colbert) are in the final stages of their divorce procedure. Miriam wants to separate because he's addicted to gambling - although he often wins. She's living with her daughter Barbara (Barbara Bates), her son-in-law Jerry Denham (Robert Wagner) and her little grandchild. Hugh, who's living at the hotel where he works, makes a fuss with the gardener about his rosebushes.

Actors

Claudette Colbert

(Miriam Halsworth)
Macdonald Carey

(Hugh Halsworth)
Zachary Scott

(Victor Macfarland)
Barbara Bates

(Barbara Denham)
Marilyn Monroe

(Joyce Mannering)
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