''Cross My Heart'' is a 1946 American
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
John Berry and starring
Betty Hutton
Betty Hutton (born Elizabeth June Thornburg; February 26, 1921 – March 11, 2007)
was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedian, dancer, and singer.
Early life and education
Hutton was born Elizabeth June Thornburg on February 2 ...
,
Sonny Tufts
Bowen Charlton "Sonny" Tufts III (July 16, 1911 – June 4, 1970) was an American stage, film, and television actor. He is best known for the films he made as a contract star at Paramount in the 1940s, including ''So Proudly We Hail!''. He a ...
and
Rhys Williams. It was a remake of the 1937 film ''
True Confession
''True Confession'' is a 1937 American screwball comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, and John Barrymore. It was based on the 1934 play ''Mon Crime'', written by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil. I ...
'', which was itself based on the 1934 French play ''Mon Crime'' written by
Georges Berr
Georges Berr (30 July 1867 – 21 July 1942) in Paris, was a French actor and dramatist, a member and sociétaire of the Comédie-Française from 1886 to 1923.
Under the pseudonyms Colias and Henry Bott he wrote several plays, particularly in c ...
and
Louis Verneuil
Louis Jacques Marie Collin du Bocage (14 May 1893 – 3 November 1952), better known by the pen name Louis Verneuil, was a French playwright, screenwriter, and actor.
Biography
Born in Paris, Verneuil wrote approximately sixty plays and was be ...
.
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Synopsis
A chorus girl by the name of Peggy Harper (Betty Hutton) quits her job as a chorus girl to get a daytime job to see her lawyer boyfriend Oliver Clark (Sonny Tufts) 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
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Betty Hutton
Betty Hutton (born Elizabeth June Thornburg; February 26, 1921 – March 11, 2007)
was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedian, dancer, and singer.
Early life and education
Hutton was born Elizabeth June Thornburg on February 2 ...
as Peggy Harper
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Sonny Tufts
Bowen Charlton "Sonny" Tufts III (July 16, 1911 – June 4, 1970) was an American stage, film, and television actor. He is best known for the films he made as a contract star at Paramount in the 1940s, including ''So Proudly We Hail!''. He a ...
as Oliver Clarke
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Rhys Williams as Prosecutor
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Ruth Donnelly
Ruth Donnelly (May 17, 1896 – November 17, 1982) was an American film and stage actress.
Early years and family
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Donnelly was the daughter of Harry Augustus and Bessie B. Donnelly.
Her uncle, Freder ...
as Eve Harper
*
Al Bridge
Alfred Morton Bridge (February 26, 1891 – December 27, 1957) was an American character actor who played mostly small roles in over 270 films between 1931 and 1954. Bridge's persona was an unpleasant, gravel-voiced man with an untidy mous ...
as Det. Flynn
*
Iris Adrian
Iris Adrian Hostetter (May 29, 1912 – September 17, 1994) was an American stage, film actress and dancer.
Life and career
Adrian was an only child, born in Los Angeles, California, to Florence (née Van Every) and Adrian Earl Hostetter, who ...
as Miss Baggart
*
Howard Freeman
Howard Freeman (December 9, 1899 – December 11, 1967) was an American actor of the early 20th century, and film and television actor of the 1940s through the 1960s.
Biography
Freeman was born in Helena, Montana, and began working as ...
as Wallace Brent
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Lewis L. Russell as Judge
*
Michael Chekhov
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Chekhov (russian: Михаил Александрович Чехов; 29 August 1891 – 30 September 1955), known as Michael Chekhov, was an American actor, director, author and theatre practitioner. He was a nephew ...
as Peter
References
Bibliography
* Fetrow, Alan G. ''Feature films, 1950-1959: a United States Filmography''. McFarland & Company, 1999.
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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
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