Doris Day
Grace LeBoy Kahn
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I'll See You in My Dreams: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Doris Day, Danny Thomas, Frank Lovejoy, Patrice Wymore. The success and decline of songwriter Gus Kahn is portrayed, with his wife, Grace Kahn, sticking by him the whole time.
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- Biography, Comedy, Musical
- Michael Curtiz
- 1952-07-25
Language. English. Box office. $2.9 million (US rentals) [1] I'll See You in My Dreams is a 1951 musical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Doris Day and Danny Thomas . The film is a biography of lyricist Gus Kahn and includes a number of songs written by him, including the title song.
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Gus Kahn (Danny Thomas), an aspiring lyricist, takes the advice of co-worker Grace LeBoy (Doris Day) in developing a new song. Impressed, Grace puts his words to music and, with the song's success...
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- Doris Day
- Michael Curtiz
- Biography
By the time she appeared in her tenth film, I'll See You in My Dreams (1951), just three years later, she was one of the top ten box office stars. Day and Curtiz made four films together. I'll See You in My Dreams was the last of them.
I'll See You in My Dreams was a big hit, Warner Brothers' second-highest grossing film of 1952. Warner Brothers re-teamed Curtiz and Thomas in another project: the 25th-anniversary remake of the first talking film, The Jazz Singer (1927), with Thomas in the Al Jolson role, The Jazz Singer.
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. The ultra-sentimental I'll See You in My Dreams is based on the life and work of composer Gus Kahn. The story is told from the point of view of Kahn' wife Grace, who was still alive when the film was made (Kahn died some ten years earlier).
