This Time for Keeps
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This Time for Keeps is a 1947 American romantic musical film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante, Johnnie Johnston and opera singer Lauritz Melchior. Produced by MGM
Theatrical release poster
Esther Williams as Leonora 'Nora' Cambaretti and Johnnie Johnston as Dick Johnson
The Grand Hotel, where the film was shot
Grand Hotel is a historic hotel and coastal resort on Mackinac Island, Michigan, a small island located at the eastern end of the Straits of Mackinac within Lake Huron between the state's Upper and Lo
This Time for Keeps
…work for his father's opera company or to continue his relationship with his pre-war lover. The film was shot in color and partly on location at the Grand Hotel, on Mackinac Island in Michigan. This Time for Keeps became the second film in which Williams's name was first billed above the title, after Fiesta…
The Grand Hotel in 2024
Grand Hotel as seen from Lake Huron in 2008.
President Gerald Ford golfing on the "Grand" (front) nine of Grand Hotel's golf course, The Jewel, on July 13, 1975