Give Me Your Heart (film)

{{short description|1936 film by Archie Mayo}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Give Me Your Heart (film)

| caption =

| image = Give Me Your Heart (film).jpg

| director = Archie Mayo

| producer = Robert Lord
Hal B. Wallis

| writer =

| screenplay = Casey Robinson

| story =

| based_on = {{based on|Sweet Aloes
1934 play|Jay Mallory}}

| starring = Kay Francis
George Brent
Roland Young
Patric Knowles

| music = Heinz Roemheld

| cinematography = Sidney Hickox

| editing = James Gibbon

| studio = Warner Bros.

| distributor = Warner Bros.

| released = {{Film date|1936|9|17}}

| runtime = 98 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Give Me Your Heart was a 1936 American drama film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Kay Francis, George Brent and Roland Young. It was a melodrama based on the 1934 London play Sweet Aloes, by Joyce Carey.Alan Goble The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film 1999 Page 780-"GIVE ME YOUR HEART 1936 d: Archie Mayo. USA., Sweet Aloes, Jay Mallory, London 1934, Play Leading lady Kay Francis, playing the familiar role of a self-sacrificing mother, had a difficult working relationship with the director throughout the making of the film.Daniel Bubbeo The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 Leading Ladies, with Filmographies for Each 2001 "Her next film, Give Me Your Heart (1936), playing her umpteenth self-sacrificing mother, was a less expensive film to mount, but still was responsible for red ink on Warners' ledgers. Through filming of Give Me Your Heart, Kay had a stormy relationship with director Archie Mayo, whom she felt did not have a good grip on the material."Lynn Kear, John Rossman Kay Francis: A Passionate Life and Career 2006 Page 92 "Give Me Your Heart was a melodrama, for sure —with George Brent again— but done well, and Kay's performance rang true. Though she.. [photo, caption Even Kay was dismayed by this outfit from Give Me Your Heart ]".

Plot

A young Englishwoman has a relationship with a married man.

Main cast

References

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