[go: up one dir, main page]

    Release calendarTop 250 moviesMost popular moviesBrowse movies by genreTop box officeShowtimes & ticketsMovie newsIndia movie spotlight
    What's on TV & streamingTop 250 TV showsMost popular TV showsBrowse TV shows by genreTV news
    What to watchLatest trailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb SpotlightFamily entertainment guideIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsEmmysToronto Int'l Film FestivalIMDb Stars to WatchSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll events
    Born todayMost popular celebsCelebrity news
    Help centerContributor zonePolls
For industry professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Watchlist
Sign in
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
  • Cast & crew
  • User reviews
  • Trivia
  • FAQ
IMDbPro

Embrasse-moi, chérie

Original title: Kiss Me Kate
  • 1953
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 49m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
7.1K
YOUR RATING
Embrasse-moi, chérie (1953)
Theatrical Trailer
Play trailer3:22
1 Video
54 Photos
Romantic ComedyScrewball ComedyComedyMusicalRomance

An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and two gangsters looking for some money... Read allAn ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and two gangsters looking for some money owed to them.An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and two gangsters looking for some money owed to them.

  • Director
    • George Sidney
  • Writers
    • Dorothy Kingsley
    • Sam Spewack
    • Bella Spewack
  • Stars
    • Kathryn Grayson
    • Howard Keel
    • Ann Miller
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
    7.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • George Sidney
    • Writers
      • Dorothy Kingsley
      • Sam Spewack
      • Bella Spewack
    • Stars
      • Kathryn Grayson
      • Howard Keel
      • Ann Miller
    • 93User reviews
    • 42Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 3 nominations total

    Videos1

    Kiss Me Kate
    Trailer 3:22
    Kiss Me Kate

    Photos54

    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    + 48
    View Poster

    Top cast39

    Edit
    Kathryn Grayson
    Kathryn Grayson
    • Lilli Vanessi 'Katherine'
    Howard Keel
    Howard Keel
    • Fred Graham 'Petruchio'
    Ann Miller
    Ann Miller
    • Lois Lane 'Bianca'
    Keenan Wynn
    Keenan Wynn
    • Lippy
    Bobby Van
    Bobby Van
    • 'Gremio'
    Tommy Rall
    Tommy Rall
    • Bill Calhoun 'Lucentio'
    James Whitmore
    James Whitmore
    • Slug
    Kurt Kasznar
    Kurt Kasznar
    • 'Baptista'
    Bob Fosse
    Bob Fosse
    • 'Hortensio'
    Ron Randell
    Ron Randell
    • Cole Porter
    Willard Parker
    Willard Parker
    • Tex Callaway
    Dave O'Brien
    Dave O'Brien
    • Ralph
    Claud Allister
    Claud Allister
    • Paul
    Ann Codee
    Ann Codee
    • Suzanne
    Carol Haney
    Carol Haney
    • Specialty Dancer
    Jeanne Coyne
    Jeanne Coyne
    • Specialty Dancer
    David Bair
    • Gregory
    • (uncredited)
    Herman Belmonte
    • Actor in Play
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • George Sidney
    • Writers
      • Dorothy Kingsley
      • Sam Spewack
      • Bella Spewack
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

    User reviews93

    7.07.1K
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10

    Featured reviews

    10jshaffer-1

    If you are a dance fan

    This is my favorite musical, not for the dancing alone, but it is the best. The dancers, not just Ann Miller and Rall, but Bob Fosse, Bobby Van, and Carol Haney!! What more could any dance fan want? There is always something new to see, no matter how many times you have watched it. The lyrics are magnificent, tricky and intriguing. When Howard Keel, dressed in those gorgeous tights, sings about all the women he has known, he's a knockout. Grayson is not my favorite actress, but she can sing, and she and Keel make a wonderful pair. I will admit that the music is great, but folks, catch the dancing!! The final dance number with the six dancers is superb, but how can you watch all six at once? You have to watch it several times, particularly the pair of Carol Haney and Bob Fosse.
    7dfloro

    End of an era for Grayson (and for MGM)

    This was the last of the six movies that Kathryn Grayson made with Howard Keel, her favorite costar. And it's the last movie she would make for MGM (she'd make one more movie, for Paramount three years later, which is best left a forgotten footnote in film history). Not only are the Cole Porter songs in "Kate" great, but the dancing from one of my favorites of all time, Ann Miller, is also quite exceptional. And like always, the chemistry is there between Grayson and Keel. By this point, MGM musicals were on the downside slope of the bell curve, but this one was still well worth the effort. A solid 7/10.
    7AlsExGal

    Originally shown in 3D...

    And it's apparent in the number of items thrown at the screen in this Technicolor musical based on the stage hit, from MGM and director George Sidney. Formerly married stage stars Fred Graham (Howard Keel) and Lilli Vanessi (Kathryn Grayson) agree to star in the new musical from Cole Porter (Ron Randell), a variation on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Fred hopes to win back Lilli, while Fred's "protege", showgirl Lois Lane (Ann Miller), who also has a part in the show, drives Lilli to distraction. This complicated romantic dynamic plays on multiple levels as they struggle to get through the opening night show and its various obstacles.

    I liked this rather complex production, with fun performances and excellent dance scenes. Ann Miller has the best dance sequences, although I also liked the amateurish number with Keenan Wynn and James Whitmore as two hoods singing and dancing. I enjoyed seeing Bob Fosse in an acting role. The movie was Oscar nominated for Best Score (Andre Previn & Saul Chaplin).
    7funkyfry

    MGM's "Kate" is a merely competent version

    Cole Porter's classic musical version of "The Taming of the Shrew" done as a film with MGM's best production values. Unfortunately, this also means Kathryn Grayson, whose performance as Kate is merely passable. But Howard Keel lives up to his star billing and delivers dynamite vocals and witty characterizations, as well as bringing the film much needed believability (he's the only one up there that seems like he actually COULD be playing Shakespeare). Ann Miller steals more than her share of the thunder as the show's ingenue (she'd been playing them for 20 years now). She does a lot of tough dancing with Fosse, Van and Co., leaving the heavy vocals for the others. Keenan Wynn is one of the gangsters who end up actors for a day, and he's living it up (on stage, the gangsters are usually the audience's favorite characters) Great songs, good show. Features the interpolated Porter tune "From this Moment On" -- the film's only improvement over the stage version.
    bowiebks

    One GREAT MGM Musical

    The movie is not the same as the stage production but it stands on its own as one of the best MGM musicals of the era. Howard Keel and Katherine Grayson were never better in any other of their films; Ann Miller is her usual energetic and delightful self, plus you get to see some superb dancers who made very few films at all, and they are all at the top of their form: Tommy Rall, Jeannie Coyne, Bob Fosse, Carol Haney and Bobby Van. The big closing number, From This Moment On, is a showcase for those five dancers plus Miller...look out for Fosse and Haney's amazing hipster/be-bop flavored segment! That song was added to the movie from another Porter show and it is the highlight of this great movie!

    More like this

    Annie, la reine du cirque
    6.8
    Annie, la reine du cirque
    Les sept femmes de Barbe: Rousse
    7.3
    Les sept femmes de Barbe: Rousse
    La blonde du Far-West
    7.2
    La blonde du Far-West
    Oklahoma!
    7.0
    Oklahoma!
    Kiss Me Kate
    8.9
    Kiss Me Kate
    Ma vie est une chanson
    6.4
    Ma vie est une chanson
    Kiss Me Kate
    7.4
    Kiss Me Kate
    Brigadoon
    6.8
    Brigadoon
    Les rois de la couture
    6.2
    Les rois de la couture
    L'étranger au paradis
    6.3
    L'étranger au paradis
    Kiss Me, Kate: The Musical
    7.1
    Kiss Me, Kate: The Musical
    Les demoiselles Harvey
    7.0
    Les demoiselles Harvey

    Related interests

    Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in Quand Harry rencontre Sally... (1989)
    Romantic Comedy
    Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal in On s'fait la valise, docteur? (1972)
    Screwball Comedy
    Will Ferrell in Présentateur vedette: La légende de Ron Burgundy (2004)
    Comedy
    Julie Andrews in La Mélodie du bonheur (1965)
    Musical
    Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1942)
    Romance

    Storyline

    Edit

    Did you know

    Edit
    • Trivia
      In supplemental information on the DVD mention is made that Keenan Wynn and James Whitmore neglected to rehearse their "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" number more than once or twice because they thought it was silly. When it came time to shoot it they made numerous fumbles and mistakes which the director thought was on purpose. He later complimented them on making it look like something a couple of thugs would perform. They never told him the truth.
    • Goofs
      At 00:44:30 during the "Tom Dick and Harry" number, Bobby Van (in the purple suit) trips on Bob Fosse (in the red suit) and breaks character and looks towards the camera and crew as if waiting for the director to yell "cut". This occurs to the right of the screen.
    • Quotes

      Baptista: Wonder of wonders, a gentleman in Verona desires you in marriage.

      Katherine: Then he best go back there.

    • Alternate versions
      Originally filmed in 3-D (which explains why characters are constantly throwing things directly at the camera).
    • Connections
      Featured in Hollywood... Hollywood ! (1976)
    • Soundtracks
      So in Love
      (uncredited)

      Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter

      Sung by Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel

    Top picks

    Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations
    Sign in

    FAQ16

    • How long is Kiss Me Kate?Powered by Alexa

    Details

    Edit
    • Release date
      • November 26, 1953 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Kiss Me Kate
    • Filming locations
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Loew's
    • See more company credits at IMDbPro

    Box office

    Edit
    • Budget
      • $1,981,000 (estimated)
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Tech specs

    Edit
    • Runtime
      • 1h 49m(109 min)
    • Color
      • Color

    Contribute to this page

    Suggest an edit or add missing content
    • Learn more about contributing
    Edit page

    More to explore

    Recently viewed

    Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
    Get the IMDb App
    Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
    Follow IMDb on social
    Get the IMDb App
    For Android and iOS
    Get the IMDb App
    • Help
    • Site Index
    • IMDbPro
    • Box Office Mojo
    • License IMDb Data
    • Press Room
    • Advertising
    • Jobs
    • Conditions of Use
    • Privacy Policy
    • Your Ads Privacy Choices
    IMDb, an Amazon company

    © 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.