I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945)
July 30, 1945Release Date
I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945)
July 30, 1945Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Margaret Lockwood
Edie Story
Vic Oliver
Sam Kahn
Michael Rennie
Bob Fielding
Peter Graves
Jim Knight
Frederick Burtwell
Pacey
Val Guest
Director
Garry Marsh
Wallace
Edward Percy
Writer
George Merritt
T.P. O'Connor
Val Valentine
Writer
Phil Grindrod
Cinematographer
Muriel George
Mrs. Le Brunn
Alfred Roome
Editor
Ella Retford
Dresser
Alf Goddard
2nd. Henchman
Eliot Makeham
John Friar
Details.
Wiki.
I'll Be Your Sweetheart is a 1945 British historical musical film directed by Val Guest and starring Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver and Michael Rennie. It was the first and only musical film produced by Gainsborough Studios. Commissioned by the British Ministry of Information, it was set at the beginning of the 20th century, and was about the composers of popular music hall songs fighting for a new copyright law that will protect them from having their songs stolen. Copyright scholar Adrian Johns has called the film "propaganda" and "a one-dimensional account of the piracy crisis [about sheet music in the early 20th century] from the publishers' perspective", but also highlighted its value as historical document, with large parts of the dialogue "closely culled from the actual raids, court cases, and arguments of 1900-1905."