Cross My Heart (1946 film)
Cross My Heart | |
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Directed by | John Berry |
Written by | Louis Verneuil (play) Georges Berr (play) Harry Tugend Claude Binyon Charles Schnee (additional dialogue) |
Produced by | Harry Tugend |
Starring | Betty Hutton Sonny Tufts Rhys Williams Ruth Donnelly |
Cinematography | Charles Lang Stuart Thompson |
Edited by | Ellsworth Hoagland |
Music by | Robert Emmett Dolan |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Cross My Heart is a 1946 American comedy film directed by John Berry and starring Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts and Rhys Williams. It was a remake of the 1937 film True Confession, which was itself based on the 1934 French play Mon Crime written by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil.[1]
Plot
[edit]A chorus girl by the name of Peggy Harper quits her job as a chorus girl to get a daytime job to see her lawyer boyfriend Oliver Clark more often. She gets a job as a private secretary for a Mr. Wallace Brent.
One day at the office, he keeps pawing Peggy and trying to "neck" with her, and so she flees the office, all to come back the same night to get her coat, purse, and hat, and also run into the police. Peggy Harper is accused of murdering her boss. She confesses just so she can get Oliver to be her lawyer and defend her at the jury to showcase his talent.
Cast
[edit]- Betty Hutton as Peggy Harper
- Sonny Tufts as Oliver Clarke
- Rhys Williams as Prosecutor
- Ruth Donnelly as Eve Harper
- Al Bridge as Det. Flynn
- Iris Adrian as Miss Baggart
- Howard Freeman as Wallace Brent
- Lewis L. Russell as Judge
- Michael Chekhov as Peter
References
[edit]- ^ Kabatchnik p.182
Bibliography
[edit]- Fetrow, Alan G. Feature films, 1950-1959: a United States Filmography. McFarland & Company, 1999.
External links
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- 1946 films
- American comedy films
- American black-and-white films
- 1946 comedy films
- 1940s English-language films
- Films based on works by Louis Verneuil
- Films directed by John Berry
- Films scored by Robert Emmett Dolan
- Paramount Pictures films
- American films based on plays
- Remakes of American films
- 1940s American films
- English-language comedy films
- 1940s comedy film stubs
- 1940s American film stubs