Mother Wore Tights (1947)
- Directed by
- Walter Lang
- Genre
- comedy film, musical film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.7 of 10 from 11 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A married couple performs in vaudeville shows across the country. They balance their careers on stage with raising a family.
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What happens
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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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