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Release year: 1951

Storyline

The success and decline of songwriter Gus Kahn is portrayed, with his wife, Grace Kahn, sticking by him the whole time.

Top credits

Directors

Michael Curtiz

Writers

Cast

Doris Day — Grace LeBoy Kahn
Danny Thomas — Gus Kahn
Frank Lovejoy — Walter Donaldson
Patrice Wymore — Gloria Knight

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Did you know

• One of Gus Kahn's most popular songs would become the title of one of Doris Day's biggest hit movies four years later - Love Me or Leave Me (1955).

• Among this film's supporting cast is one of America's greatest character actresses, Mary Wickes, in the kind of role she specialized in - a wisecracking, unfailingly loyal housekeeper with a heart of gold.

• This biopic of lyricist Gus Kahn is told from the point of view of his widow Grace who was still alive at the time of filming. Kahn himself had died 10 years earlier.