# Kiss Me Kate (1953)

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**Runtime**: 109 min
**Genres**: Music, Comedy, Romance
**Directed by**: George Sidney
**Written by**: Dorothy Kingsley
**Starring**: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, Bobby Van, Tommy Rall

> *Famed Stage Hit Now Big Color Musical!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A backstage musical that thinks it's also something else. A divorced acting couple is forced to perform opposite each other in a stage production of *The Taming of the Shrew*, complicated by gangsters. It’s not exactly reinventing Shakespeare, or anything else.

**Mood tags**: cozy, playful

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