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This Time for Keeps

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This Time for Keeps is a musical film and a romantic comedy released in the United States on October 17, 1947 and produced by MGM. It is about a soldier, returning home from war who does not wish to work for his father's opera company or to continue his relationship with his prewar lover. It stars Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante, and Lauritz Melchior and it was directed by Richard Thorpe. The film was shot in color on location at the Grand Hotel, on Mackinac Island in Michigan.

Main cast

Actor Role
Esther Williams Leonora Cambaretti
Johnnie Johnston Dick Johnson
Jimmy Durante Ferdi Farro
Lauritz Melchior Richard Herald
Xavier Cugat Himself
May Whitty Grandmother Cambaretti
Mary Stuart Frances Allenbury
Ludwig Stossel Peter