Seven Sweethearts
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Duration Language English | 6.6/10 Genre Musical, Romance Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date November 13, 1942 (1942-11-13) Based on Seven Sisters Cast (Billie Van Maaster), (Henry Taggart), (Regina 'Reggie' Van Maaster), (Victor Van Maaster), (Albert 'Al' Van Maaster), (Peter Van Maaster) Similar movies Birdman , Frozen , Pitch Perfect 2 , Aladdin , Mulan , Into the Woods Tagline It's A SWEETHEART Of A Picture! |
Seven sweethearts original theatrical trailer
Seven Sweethearts is a 1942 musical film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Kathryn Grayson, Marsha Hunt and Van Heflin.
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- Seven sweethearts original theatrical trailer
- Seven sweethearts preview clip
- Plot summary
- Cast
- Reception
- References

Seven Sweethearts generated legal trouble seven years later. In 1949, Hungarian playwright Ferenc Herczeg sued MGM, producer Joe Pasternak and screenwriters Walter Reisch and Leo Townsend for $200,000, claiming they had plagiarized his play Seven Sisters, which he had written in 1903 and which Paramount Pictures had adapted into The Seven Sisters a 1915 movie starring Madge Evans. Herczeg was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp in Hungary when Seven Sweethearts was produced and released, and consequently he didn't learn of the film's existence until 1948. The suit was settled out of court for a substantial amount.

Kathryn Grayson's real-life sister, Frances Raeburn, played "Cornelius."
Seven sweethearts preview clip
Plot summary
Mr. Van Maaster (S.Z. Sakall) is a hotelier in Little Delft, Michigan. By family tradition, the oldest of his seven daughters must marry first. But Regina (Marsha Hunt) wants to go to New York, to become an actress. The youngest, Billie (Kathryn Grayson), has the sweetest singing voice, and she ends up marrying Henry Taggart (Van Heflin)while the other sisters including Regina also get married at the same time, so all sisters marry in the same ceremony.
Cast
Reception
According to MGM records the film made $638,000 in the US and Canada and $1,048,000 elsewhere (a rarity for MGM as most movies earned more money domestically); this gave the studio a profit of $364,000.
References
Seven Sweethearts WikipediaSeven Sweethearts IMDb Seven Sweethearts themoviedb.org