Seven Sweethearts
Seven Sweethearts is a 1942 musical film directed by Frank Borzage, starring Kathryn Grayson, Marsha Hunt and Van Heflin. Seven Sweethearts generated a bit of legal trouble seven years later. In 1949, Hungarian playwright Ferenc Herczeg sued MGM, Pasternak, and screenwriters Walter Reich and Leo Townsend for 200,000, claiming they had plagiarized his play Seven Sisters, which he had written in 1903 and which Paramount 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 didnt learn of the films existence until 1948. The suit was settled out of court for a substantial amount.
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 it is she who ends up with the first husband Henry Taggart Van Heflin.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. ........
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