Give Me Your Heart (film)

Give Me Your Heart (film)
Directed by Archie Mayo
Based on Sweet Aloes, 1934
Starring Kay Francis, George Brent
Production
company
Warner Brothers
Release dates
  • 1936 (1936)
Country United States
Language English

Give Me Your Heart was a 1936 Warner Brothers film directed by Archie Mayo. It was a melodrama based on the 1934 London play Sweet Aloes, by Jay Mallory.[1] 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.[2][3]

References

  1. 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
  2. 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."
  3. 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.. [photo, caption Even Kay was dismayed by this outfit from Give Me Your Heart ]".


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