Cross My Heart (1946)
- Starring:
- Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, (more)
- Director(s):
- John Berry
Synopsis of Cross My Heart
True Confession was one of the unfunniest of the "screwball" comedies of the 1930s, and its musical remake, Cross My Heart, isn't much of an improvement. Betty Hutton steps into the old Carole Lombard role as Peggy, a compulsive liar who'll do anything to help her attorney fiance Oliver Clarke (Sonny Tufts) get ahead. When it looks as though an unsolved murder case will be Clarke's ticket to success, Peggy, sticking her tongue in her cheek (as she always does when she's about to tell a whopper), glibly confesses to the killing. Peggy's plan is to allow her boyfriend to prove her innocence, thereby cementing his reputation as a man of integrity-but things don't go quite as planned. The subsequent trial is enlivened by the antics of looney Russian actor Peter (Michael Chekhov), who may or may not be the actual murderer. Betty Hutton's song numbers are just about as mediocre as the rest of the film. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Cross My Heart
- Betty Hutton - Peggy Harper
- Ruth Donnelly - Eve Harper
- Iris Adrian - Miss Baggart
- Michael Chekhov - Peter
- Jo Gilbert - Miss Stewart
- Shimen Ruskin - Juror
- Wilbur Mack - Juror
- Arthur Loft - Deputy
- Bobby Larson - Newsboy
- Kathleen Howard - Mrs. Klute
- Bessie Wade
- Tom Dugan - Truck driver
- Rhys Williams - Prosecutor
- Almira Sessions - Old hag
- Ethel May Halls - Juror
- Jimmy Conlin - Jury foreman
- Frank Ferguson - Reporter
- Mae Busch - Juror
- Sonny Tufts - Oliver Clarke
- Al Bridge - Detective Flynn
- Lewis L. Russell - Judge
- Walter S. Baldwin - Coroner
- Harry Harvey - Reporter
- Ida Moore - Little lady juror
- Lou Lubin - Tony Krouch
- Nolan Leary - Juror
- Milt Kibbee - Juror
- Larry Thompson - Asst. Prosecutor Dennis
- William Meader - Juror
- John Kelly - Juror
- Dorothy Vaughan - Matron
- Sid Saylor - Reporter
- Howard Freeman - Wallace Brent
- Tom Fadden - Truck Driver
- Frank Faylen - Fingerprint expert
- Director(s):
- John Berry
- Writer(s):
- Claude Binyon, Harry Tugend, Charles Schnee
- Producer(s):
- Harry Tugend
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