Kiss Me Kate (1953) [NR]

Release Date:
November 26, 1953

Original Title:
Kiss Me Kate

Genres:
Comedy | Music | Romance

Production Companies:
Loew's Incorporated
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AT: 12  SE: 7  US: NR 

Runtime: 109

Famed Stage Hit Now Big Color Musical!

A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together when mistaken identities get them mixed up with the mafia.

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Art Direction:
Urie McCleary
Cedric Gibbons

Assistant Director:
George Rhein

Choreographer:
Bob Fosse
Hermes Pan
Alex Romero

Color Timer:
Alvord Eiseman

Costume Design:
Walter Plunkett

Dialogue Coach:
Lillian Burns

Director:
George Sidney

Director of Photography:
Charles Rosher

Editor:
Ralph E. Winters

Hairstylist:
Sydney Guilaroff

Lyricist:
Cole Porter

Makeup Designer:
William Tuttle

Music:
Cole Porter

Music Director:
Saul Chaplin
André Previn

Music Supervisor:
Harry V. Lojewski

Orchestrator:
Conrad Salinger
Skip Martin
Robert Franklyn
Wally Heglin

Original Music Composer:
Cole Porter

Producer:
Jack Cummings

Production Illustrator:
Mentor Huebner

Recording Supervision:
Douglas Shearer

Screenplay:
Dorothy Kingsley

Set Decoration:
Richard Pefferle
Edwin B. Willis

Songs:
Cole Porter

Sound Mixer:
William Saracino

Special Effects:
Warren Newcombe

Theatre Play:
Sam Spewack
Bella Spewack
William Shakespeare

Unit Manager:
Charles Levin

Vocal Coach:
Bobby Tucker
Harry V. Lojewski

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