Meet Me After the Show

Meet Me After the Show
Directed by	Richard Sale
Produced by	George Jessel
Written by	Scott Darling Erna Lazarus Mary Loos Richard Sale
Starring	Betty Grable Macdonald Carey Rory Calhoun
Music by	Ken Darby
Cinematography	Arthur E. Arling
Editing by	J. Watson Webb, Jr.
Distributed by	Twentieth-Century Fox
Release date(s)	15 August 1951
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Meet Me After the Show is a 1951 musical film starring Betty Grable and released through 20th Century Fox. The film was one of Grable's last musical films for Fox during her box office reign of the past decade.

Plot

Delilah Lee is groomed by her husband Jeff Ames for his new Broadway show. Delilah becomes such a success to a point where she feels that Jeff thinks of her more as an asset than a wife. When the show's backer Gloria Carstairs begins coming on to Jeff, Delilah leaves him, but regrets it later on and tries to win him back. She devises a scheme involving amnesia to lure Jeff back to her.

Cast

• Betty Grable as Delilah Lee
• Macdonald Carey as Jeff Ames
• Rory Calhoun as David Hemingway
• Eddie Albert as Chris Leeds
• Fred Clark as Timothy 'Tim' Wayne
• Lois Andrews as Gloria Carstairs
• Irene Ryan as Tillie

Production

Betty Grable had been reigning the box office throughout the 1940's. Her films always made big money for 20th Century Fox and they rewarded her by increasing her salary over the years to a point where she was making more money than Darryl F. Zanuck. By the end of the decade she was making $300,000 a year which made her the highest paid person in Hollywood and one of the highest paid people in America. Meet Me After the Show was a box office hit when released, especially due to the successes of her two films the previous year; Wabash Avenue and My Blue Heaven.

Rory Calhoun co-starred in this movie. He would also co-star with Betty Grable in How to Marry a Millionaire in 1953 playing her romantic interest in that film.

Meet Me After the Show also features a supporting performance by Irene Ryan later of The Beverly Hillbillies fame. She played Grable's maid Tillie.

External links

• Meet Me After the Show at the Internet Movie Database