Let's Make It Legal
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Directed by | Richard Sale |
Produced by | Robert Bassler |
Written by | I.A.L. Diamond William Inge F. Hugh Herbert Mortimer Braus (story) |
Starring | Claudette Colbert MacDonald Carey Zachary Scott Barbara Bates |
Music by | Cyril J. Mockridge Lionel Newman |
Cinematography | Lucien Ballard |
Editing by | Robert Fritch |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox |
Release date(s) | 6 November 1951 |
Running time | 77 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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Let's Make It Legal (1951) is a comedy film made by Twentieth Century-Fox, directed by Richard Sale and produced by Robert Bassler from a screenplay by I.A.L. Diamond and F. Hugh Herbert, based on a story by Mortimer Braus entitled "My Mother-in-Law, Miriam". The music was by Cyril J. Mockridge and the cinematography by Lucien Ballard.
The film stars Claudette Colbert, MacDonald Carey, Zachary Scott and Barbara Bates.
[edit] Plot
A husband on the edge of divorce tries hard to win his wife back. His son-in-law encourages the friendship of a childhood friend so that after the divorce he can move out. But husband wins in the end.
[edit] Cast (in credits order)
- Claudette Colbert ... Miriam Halsworth
- Macdonald Carey ... Hugh Halsworth
- Zachary Scott ... Victor Macfarland
- Barbara Bates ... Barbara Denham
- Robert Wagner ... Jerry Denham
- Marilyn Monroe ... Joyce Mannering
- Frank Cady ... Ferguson
- Jim Hayward ... Pete the gardener
- Carol Savage ... Miss Jessup
- Paul Gerrits ... Milkman
- Betty Jane Bowen ... Secretary
- Vicki Raaf ... Peggy (Hugh's secretary)
- Ralph Sanford ... Police Lieutenant
- Harry Denny ... Hotel Manager
- Harry Harvey ... Postman (as Harry Harvey Sr.)