Give Me Your Heart (film)

1936 film by Archie Mayo

September 17, 1936 (1936-09-17)

Running time

98 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Give Me Your Heart was a 1936 American drama film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Kay Francis, George Brent and Roland Young. It was a melodrama based on the 1934 London play Sweet Aloes, by Joyce Carey.^[1] Leading lady Kay Francis, playing the familiar role of a self-sacrificing mother, had a difficult working relationship with the director throughout the making of the film.^[2]^[3]

Plot

A young Englishwoman has a relationship with a married man.

Main cast

Kay Francis as Belinda Warren
George Brent as Jim Baker
Roland Young as Tubbs Barrow
Patric Knowles as Robert Melford
Henry Stephenson as Edward - Lord Farrington
Frieda Inescort as Rosamond Melford
Helen Flint as Dr. Florence Cudahy
Halliwell Hobbes as Oliver
Zeffie Tilbury as Esther Warren
Elspeth Dudgeon as Alice Dodd

References

^ Alan Goble The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film 1999 Page 780-"GIVE ME YOUR HEART 1936 d: Archie Mayo. USA., Sweet Aloes, Jay Mallory, London 1934, Play
^ Daniel Bubbeo The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 Leading Ladies, with Filmographies for Each 2001 "Her next film, Give Me Your Heart (1936), playing her umpteenth self-sacrificing mother, was a less expensive film to mount, but still was responsible for red ink on Warners' ledgers. Through filming of Give Me Your Heart, Kay had a stormy relationship with director Archie Mayo, whom she felt did not have a good grip on the material."
^ Lynn Kear, John Rossman Kay Francis: A Passionate Life and Career 2006 Page 92 "Give Me Your Heart was a melodrama, for sure —with George Brent again— but done well, and Kay's performance rang true. Though she.. [photo, caption Even Kay was dismayed by this outfit from Give Me Your Heart ]".