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Mother Wore Tights
Theatrical posterDirected by Walter Lang Produced by Lamar Trotti Written by Lamar Trotti
Miriam Young (book)Starring Betty Grable
Dan DaileyEditing by J. Watson Webb Jr. Release date(s) September 1947 Running time 107 minutes Country United States Language English Mother Wore Tights is a 1947 musical film starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey as married vaudeville performers. This was Grable and Dailey's first film together, based on a book of the same name by Miriam Young. It was the highest grossing film of Grable's career up to that time, earning more than $5 million at the box office. It was also 20th Century Fox's most successful film of 1947.
Alfred Newman won the Academy Award for Original Music Score. Josef Myrow (music) and Mack Gordon (lyrics) were nominated for Original Song ("You Do"), while Harry Jackson was nominated for Color Cinematography.
Cast
- Betty Grable as Myrtle McKinley Burt
- Dan Dailey as Frank Burt
- Mona Freeman as Iris Burt
- Connie Marshall as Miriam Burt
- Vanessa Brown as Bessie
- Robert Arthur as Bob Clarkman
- Sara Allgood as Grandmother McKinley
- William Frawley as Mr. Schneider
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Films directed by Walter Lang 1920s The Golden Web (1926)1930s No More Orchids (1932) · Meet the Baron (1933) · The Mighty Barnum (1934) · Love Before Breakfast (1936) · Second Honeymoon (1937) · The Little Princess (1939) · Susannah of the Mounties (1939)1940s The Blue Bird (1940) · Star Dust (1940) · The Great Profile (1940) · Tin Pan Alley (1940) · Moon Over Miami (1941) · Week-End in Havana (1941) · Song of the Islands (1942) · The Magnificent Dope (1942) · Coney Island (1943) · Greenwich Village (1944) · State Fair (1945) · Claudia and David (1946) · Sentimental Journey (1946) · Mother Wore Tights (1947) · Sitting Pretty (1948) · When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948) · You're My Everything (1949)1950s Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) · The Jackpot (1950) · On the Riviera (1951) · With a Song in My Heart (1952) · Call Me Madam (1953) · There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) · The King and I (1956) · Desk Set (1957) · But Not for Me (1959)1960s Categories:- English-language films
- 1947 films
- 20th Century Fox films
- American films
- Films shot in Technicolor
- Films directed by Walter Lang
- 1940s musical films
- Best Original Music Score Academy Award winners
- Musical film stubs
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