Mother Wore Tights(Movie, 1947)

Name: Mother Wore Tights
Genre: Music
Released: 1947
Duration: T01:47:00
Rating: 2.8

| 1h 47min | Genre: Music

Rating: 2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

Mother Wore Tights is a 1947 American Technicolor musical film starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey as married vaudeville performers, directed by Walter Lang. 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 this 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 Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture. Josef Myrow (music) and Mack Gordon (lyrics) were nominated for Original Song ("You Do"), while Harry Jackson was nominated for Color Cinematography. ()

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Awards & Nominations for Mother Wore Tights

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score nominated for: Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color nominated for: Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

About Mother Wore Tights

In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: California

Made by: 20th Century Fox

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 8 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 08/20/1947

Cast: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman, Vanessa Brown, Sara Allgood, William Frawley, Ruth Nelson, George Cleveland, Veda Ann Borg, Sig Ruman, Lee Patrick, Anne Baxter

Director: Walter Lang

Producer: Lamar Trotti

Screenwriter: Lamar Trotti

Film Editor: J. Watson Webb, Jr.

Director of Photography: Harry Jackson

Composer: Alfred Newman

Costume designer: Orry-Kelly

Production Designer: Richard Day

Keywords: vaudeville

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