This Time for Keeps (1947)
by Richard Thorpe
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Actor: Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante, Johnny Johnston, Lauritz Melchior, Xavier CugatDirector: Richard Thorpe
Cinematographer: Karl Freund
Editor: John D. Dunning
Producer: Joe Pasternak
Writer: Erwin S. Gelsey
Writer: Gladys Lehman
Writer: Hans Wilhelm
Writer: Lorraine Fielding
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 105 minutes
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Studio: MGM (Warner)
VHS Movie Reviews of This Time for Keeps (1947)
Movie Review: This Time for Keeps
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased this movie for the singing of Lauritz Melchior.Which as always was wonderful. almost as great as Two Sisters from Boston.
The movie itself was very entertaining, good singing and not a bad plot. and of course Durante is a warm person and very funny.
Movie Review: A major (and minor) Esther Williams vehicle.
Summary: 4 Stars
This film is a kind of dual enigma because, while it is a properly light-hearted musical (they all were, but with varying degrees of success), it also boasts a great many oddities- starting with the strange title (exactly what in the film is "for keeps?"). Esther Williams plays a properly likable, properly beautiful, aquacade star whose relationship with Jimmy Durante (a legend whom I've always enjoyed) should've been that of a father and daughter, but instead is something a tad stranger. Thankfully, this isn't ignored in the film, as her actual love interest (Johnnie Johnston), whom Durante relentlessly 'protects' from Williams, challenges his interference in the film's 11th hour. (While Durante seems to have a bothered conscience about this, it is never confirmed or denied.) Another annoyance, as someone memtioned earlier, is the blowhard opera tenor (Lauritz Melchior) playing Johnston's meddlesome father. After getting past all this stickiness, the film's highlights, which are its musical portions (especially the Cugat numbers and the striptease and swim of "Ten Percent Off"), can finally be enjoyed.Movie Review: a great film!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an Esther Williams film, not heard aboutt or shown as often. It's really good, and well worth watching. It's one of her best. It has really nice swin scenes clothes and a pretty good storyline.Movie Review: good movie
Summary: 5 Stars
i liked this time for keeps it was a good movie i read her bookand it had some infomation in it that help me enjoyed the movie more. like in one part were it was filmed in mich there a place
in upper mich i would not mind go seeing you haved to take a boat
to get there it look like some good fishing up there.
Movie Review: Prime Durante
Summary: 4 Stars
If you're a fan of Jimmy Durante or of the Grand Hotel in Mackinack Island this is a film you'll love. Durante plays the manager/protector of Esther Williams and he's in prime form. Esther's OK too if you like that sort of thing.
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