Seven Sweethearts

Seven Sweethearts
Directed by Frank Borzage
Produced by Frank Borzage
Joe Pasternak
Written by Ferenc Herczeg play
Screenplay by Walter Reisch
Leo Townsend
Based on Seven Sisters
Starring Kathryn Grayson
Marsha Hunt
Cecilia Parker
Van Heflin
Music by Franz Waxman
Cinematography George J. Folsey
Leonard Smith
Edited by Blanche Sewell
Production
company
Distributed by Loew's Inc.
Release date
 November 13, 1942 (1942-11-13)
Running time
 98 min.
Country United States
Language English
Budget $752,000[1]
Box office $1,686,000[1]

Seven Sweethearts is a 1942 musical film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Kathryn Grayson, Marsha Hunt and Van Heflin.

Seven Sweethearts generated legal trouble seven years later. In 1949, Hungarian playwright Ferenc Herczeg sued MGM, producer Joe Pasternak and screenwriters Walter Reisch and Leo Townsend for $200,000, claiming they had plagiarized his play Seven Sisters, which he had written in 1903 and which Paramount Pictures 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.[2]

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

Plot summary

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 she ends up marrying Henry Taggart (Van Heflin) while the other sisters including Regina also get married at the same time, so all sisters marry in the same ceremony.[3]

Cast

Reception

According to MGM records the film made $638,000 in the US and Canada and $1,048,000 elsewhere (a rarity for MGM as most movies earned more money domestically); this gave the studio a profit of $364,000.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .
  2. ↑ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2833/Seven-Sweethearts/articles.html
  3. ↑ http://www.allmovie.com/movie/seven-sweethearts-v109574
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