My Dream Is Yours (1949)

Directors:

Michael Curtiz
Friz Freleng

Writers:

Laura Kerr (adaptation)
Harry Kurnitz (screenplay)

Release Date:

16 April 1949 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical

Plot:

Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace Garry...

Plot Keywords:

Singer | Single Mother | Bugs Bunny | Beautiful Woman | Widow

Cast

Jack Carson	...	Doug Blake
Doris Day	...	Martha Gibson
Lee Bowman	...	Gary Mitchell
Adolphe Menjou	...	Thomas Hutchins
Eve Arden	...	Vivian Martin
S.Z. Sakall	...	Felix Hofer
Selena Royle	...	Freda Hofer
Edgar Kennedy	...	Uncle Charlie
Sheldon Leonard	...	Grimes
Franklin Pangborn	...	Sourpuss Manager
John Berkes	...	Character Actor
Ada Leonard	...	Herself
Frankie Carle	...	Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mel Blanc	...	Bugs Bunny / Tweety (voice)

Runtime:

101 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Finland:S | Sweden:Btl

Filming Locations:

Iverson Ranch, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Michael Curtiz Productions

Trivia:

The scenes in this film featuring Doris Day and her young on-screen son had a special emotional resonance for Day, since in real life she had often had to leave her own pre-school-aged son Terry behind with his grandmother while touring as a big band singer in the 1940s.

Goofs:

Factual errors: During a montage showing Martha's rise to stardom, there's a shot of stacks of fan letters, all of them bearing the address of what turns out to be Martha's home address. Even in the far more innocent times in which the film was set, stars didn't publicly reveal their home addresses and virtually all fan mail would have been addressed to her movie studio or record label or simply "Hollywood."

Quotes:

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Movie Connections:

Featured in Toonheads: The Lost Cartoons (2000) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Jeepers Creepers

Old Hollywood

I've forgotten how vibrant and appealing the young Doris was.

She benefits here from a class director like Michael Curtiz.

I only wished he could have done the same for Rosie Clooney in "White Christmas" or with Peggy Lee in "The Jazz Singer" as they had this potential beyond being blonde canary birds, but never hit their stride in films the way Doris did. Here she visits such Hollywood landmarks as the Brown Derby and Schwab's drug store. Eve Arden scores again as the unlucky-with-men, wise-cracking best friend, a part Thelma Ritter played to perfection in "Pilow Talk," later with Doris. After the first hour, the ghost of "A Star is Born" begins to take form as Lee Bowman drinks himself out of a career and then the unknown Doris rises to become a bigger star than he. Also, the presence of both Jack Carson and Adolphe Menjou from both versions of " Star is Born" triggered my memory. But Bowman is no James Mason who evoked sympathy from the audience and, in fact, he's mainly a conceited jerk who deserves to fail.

But this is Doris's film and in it she showed the promise of what was to come in films like "Young Man with a Horn" (Curtiz again) and "Love Me or Leave Me." It's only when musicals dropped out of fashion and she was forced into doing mediocre comedies that made us forget her truly wide-ranging talents. Had she been given better co-stars than Jack Carson and the insipid Gordon MacRae, she might have risen to the heights of a Judy Garland!