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1936 film by Archie Mayo

Give Me Your Heart (film)

Directed by	Archie Mayo
Screenplay by	Casey Robinson
Based on	Sweet Aloes 1934 play by Jay Mallory
Produced by	Robert Lord Hal B. Wallis
Starring	Kay Francis George Brent Roland Young Patric Knowles
Cinematography	Sidney Hickox
Edited by	James Gibbon
Music by	Heinz Roemheld
Production company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	September 17, 1936 (1936-09-17)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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. 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.

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

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
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.. ".

External links

Give Me Your Heart at IMDb
Give Me Your Heart at the TCM Movie Database
Give Me Your Heart at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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Films directed by Archie Mayo

Money Talks (1926)
Christine of the Big Tops (1926)
Unknown Treasures (1926)
Johnny Get Your Hair Cut (1927)
Dearie (1927)
Slightly Used (1927)
The College Widow (1927)
Quarantined Rivals (1927)
State Street Sadie (1928)
Beware of Married Men (1928)
The Crimson City (1928)
On Trial (1928)
My Man (1928)
Sonny Boy (1929)
Is Everybody Happy? (1929)
The Sap (1929)
The Sacred Flame (1929)
Wide Open (1930)
Courage (1930)
Oh Sailor Behave (1930)
The Doorway to Hell (1930)
Illicit (1931)
Svengali (1931)
Bought (1931)
Under Eighteen (1931)
The Expert (1932)
Night After Night (1932)
Two Against the World (1932)
Street of Women (1932)
The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
The Mayor of Hell (1933)
Ever in My Heart (1933)
Convention City (1933)
Gambling Lady (1934)
The Man with Two Faces (1934)
Desirable (1934)
Give Me Your Heart (1934)
Bordertown (1935)
Go into Your Dance (1935)
The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)
The Petrified Forest (1936)
I Married a Doctor (1936)
Black Legion (1937)
It's Love I'm After (1937)
The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
Youth Takes a Fling (1938)
They Shall Have Music (1939)
The House Across the Bay (1940)
Four Sons (1940)
The Great American Broadcast (1941)
Charley's Aunt (1941)
Confirm or Deny (1941)
Moontide (1942)
Orchestra Wives (1942)
Crash Dive (1943)
Sweet and Low-Down (1944)
A Night in Casablanca (1946)
Angel on My Shoulder (1946)

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