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
- Kay Francis as Belinda Warren
- George Brent as Jim Baker
- Roland Young as Tubbs Barrow
- Patric Knowles as Robert Melford
- Henry Stephenson as Edward - Lord Farrington
- Frieda Inescort as Rosamond Melford
- Helen Flint as Dr. Florence Cudahy
- Halliwell Hobbes as Oliver
- Zeffie Tilbury as Esther Warren
- Elspeth Dudgeon as Alice Dodd
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0027679|Give Me Your Heart}}
- {{tcmdb title|1006|Give Me Your Heart}}
- {{AFI film|id=3948|title=Give Me Your Heart}}
{{Archie Mayo}}
Category:1936 romantic drama films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American films based on plays
Category:American romantic drama films
Category:Films directed by Archie Mayo
Category:Films scored by Heinz Roemheld
Category:Films set in the United States
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:English-language romantic drama films
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