I'll Be Yours (1947)

A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.

Director:

William A. Seiter

Writers:

Preston Sturges (screenplay), Felix Jackson (adaptation),

Stars:

Deanna Durbin, Tom Drake, William Bendix

Cast

Cast overview:
Deanna Durbin	...	Louise Ginglebusher
Tom Drake	...	George Prescott
William Bendix	...	Wechsberg
Adolphe Menjou	...	J. Conrad Nelson
Walter Catlett	...	Mr. Buckingham
Franklin Pangborn	...	Barber
William Trenk	...	Captain
Joan Shawlee	...	Blonde (as Joan Fulton)
John Phillips	...	Thug

Storyline

A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.

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Plot Keywords:

businessman | small town | contraction in title | singing | singer | 

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Taglines:

Heaven Protects the Working Girl...but who protects the guy she's WORKING to get?

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Genres:

Comedy | Musical | Romance

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 February 1947 (USA)

Also Known As:

Amor de Encomenda

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal International Pictures (UI)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Speaking about her dozen-year movie career with film historian David Shipman in a rare 1983 interview, Deanna Durbin dismissed as "terrible" the quality of her last four vehicles: this picture, Something in the Wind, Up in Central Park and For the Love of Mary.

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Connections

Version of Die Fee (1969)

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Soundtracks

"Love's Own Sweet Song (Sari Waltz)"
Lyrics by Catherine Chisholm Cushing and E.P. Heath
Music by Emmerich Kálmán
Sung by Deanna Durbin

User Reviews

Durbin movie seems weak...?

I'll Be Yours may not be one of Deanna Durbin's best movies, but it really is not a bad movie. The other actors in this movie are great, especially William Bendix, Adolphe Menjou, Walter Catlett and even Tom Drake. By comparison to most of her movies, it does seem like unbelievable fluff, although her movies are more for entertainment than realism anyway. I mention this, because I'll Be Yours is a remake of The Good Fairy from 1935, with Margaret Sullavan and Herbert Marshall, which seems difficult to believe as it is with the naivety in that movie, but considering Good Fairy takes place in early to mid 1930's Hungary and that Sullavan's character comes from an orphanage and has never seen the real world, the plot is a little more plausible. For I'll Be Yours, The Good Fairy story is updated to 1947 and takes place in New York City, both of which really don't work for this kind of plot, no matter how good the acting is. Deanna seems too sophisticated for the plot, even though they changed the character's background from an orphanage to small town girl, and Tom Drake seems way too naive for an American male of this period. All in all, this is not a bad movie, but one does expect better for this cast.