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This Time for Keeps is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Richard Thorpe released in USA on 17 october 1947 with Esther Williams
This Time for Keeps (1947)
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Add to a movie listThis Time for Keeps is an American romantic musical film released in 1947 and produced by MGM. It is about a soldier, returning home from war, who does not wish to work for his father's opera company or to continue his relationship with his pre-war lover.
It stars Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante, Johnnie Johnston and opera singer Lauritz Melchior and was directed by Richard Thorpe. The film was shot in color and partly on location at the Grand Hotel, on Mackinac Island in Michigan.
This Time for Keeps became the second film in which Williams's name was first billed above the title, after Fiesta.
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Richard Herald (Lauritz Melchior) is a famous opera singer and father to Richard Herald II, who has recently returned from fighting in the war and now prefers to be known as Dick Johnson (Johnnie Johnston). Dick has been engaged to socialite Frances Allenbury (Mary Stuart) since before he left for the war, but has been expressing some apprehension about marrying her.Actors
Esther Williams
(Nora Cambaretti)
Jimmy Durante
(Ferdi Farro)
May Whitty
(Grandmother Cambaretti)
Mary Stuart
(Frances Allenbury)
Anne Francis
(la fille en socquettes)
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