I'll See You in My Dreams (1951 film)
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| Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
| Written by | Jack Rose Melville Shavelson |
| Story by | Louis F. Edelman Grace Kahn |
| Produced by | Louis F. Edelman |
| Starring | Doris Day Danny Thomas Frank Lovejoy Patrice Wymore James Gleason |
| Cinematography | Ted D. McCord |
| Edited by | Owen Marks |
| Music by | Ray Heindorf |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,404,000 |
| Box office | $2.9 million (US rentals). |
I'll See You in My Dreams is a 1951 musical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Doris Day and Danny Thomas. It was Warner Bros. Pictures' second-highest-grossing film of 1951. Curtiz teamed with Thomas again the following year for a remake of The Jazz Singer.
The film is a biography of lyricist Gus Kahn, who died in 1941, and includes much of his music, including the title song. The story, which avoids Kahn's Jewish origins, is told from the point of view of his wife Grace, who was alive when the film was produced. Kahn was a prolific songwriter whose career ascended to spectacular heights before he lost his savings in the 1929 stock-market crash.