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Seven Sweethearts is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Frank Borzage released in USA on 13 november 1942 with Kathryn Grayson

Seven Sweethearts (1942)

Seven Sweethearts
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Released in USA 13 november 1942
Length 1h38
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Musical theatre,    Musical,    Romance
Rating63% 3.196963.196963.196963.196963.19696

Seven Sweethearts is a 1942 musical film directed by Frank Borzage, starring Kathryn Grayson, Marsha Hunt and Van Heflin. Seven Sweethearts generated a bit of legal trouble seven years later. In 1949, Hungarian playwright Ferenc Herczeg sued MGM, Pasternak, and screenwriters Walter Reich and Leo Townsend for $200,000, claiming they had plagiarized his play Seven Sisters, which he had written in 1903 and which Paramount had adapted into The Seven Sisters a 1915 movie starring Madge Evans. Herczeg was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp in Hungary when Seven Sweethearts was produced and released, and consequently he didn't learn of the film's existence until 1948. The suit was settled out of court for a substantial amount.

Kathryn Grayson's real-life sister, Frances Raeburn, played "Cornelius."

Synopsis

Mr. Van Maaster (S.Z. Sakall) is a hotelier in Little Delft, Michigan. By family tradition, the oldest of his seven daughters must marry first. But Regina (Marsha Hunt) wants to go to New York, to become an actress. The youngest, Billie (Kathryn Grayson), has the sweetest singing voice, and it is she who ends up with the first husband Henry Taggart (Van Heflin).

Actors

Kathryn Grayson

(Billie Van Maaster)
Marsha Hunt

(Regina 'Reggie' Van Maaster)
Van Heflin

(Henry Taggart)
Cecilia Parker

(Victor Van Maaster)
Frances Rafferty

(George Van Maaster)
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