In the Good Old Summertime
1949 film by Buster Keaton, Robert Zigler Leonard / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In the Good Old Summertime is a 1949 American Technicolor musical romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. It stars Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S. Z. Sakall, Spring Byington, Clinton Sundberg, and Buster Keaton in his first featured film role at MGM since 1933.
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Based on | Parfumerie 1937 play by Miklós László |
Produced by | Joe Pasternak |
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Cinematography | Harry Stradling |
Edited by | Adrienne Fazan |
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Distributed by | Loew's Inc. |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,577,000[1] |
Box office | $3,534,000[1] |
The film is a musical adaptation of the 1940 film The Shop Around the Corner, which was directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, and Frank Morgan, and written by Miklós László, based on his 1937 play Parfumerie. For In the Good Old Summertime, the locale has been changed from 1930s Budapest to turn-of-the-century Chicago, but the plot remains the same. The plot was also revived in the 1998 film You've Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.