"The musical ""Kiss Me Kate"" is based on which Shakespearean play?"
Kiss Me Kate (film) after "Me". Kiss Me Kate (film) Kiss Me Kate is a 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name. Inspired by "The Taming of the Shrew", it tells the tale of musical theater actors Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi, who were once married, and are now performing opposite each other in the roles of Petruchio and Katherine in a Broadway-bound musical version of William Shakespeare's play. Already on poor terms, the pair begin an all-out emotional war mid-performance that threatens the production's success. The only thing keeping the show together are threats from a pair of
Kiss Me Kate (film) studio management, rather than censors. In "We Open In Venice", the line "not stars like L.B. Mayer's are we" was changed to "Shakespearean portrayers are we". Louis B. Mayer had been forced out as head of MGM a year and a half before this film's release. The movie had a mostly positive reception. Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" called "Kiss Me Kate" "one of the year's more magnificent musical films ... a beautifully staged, adroitly acted and really superbly sung affair—better, indeed, if one may say so, than the same frolic was on the stage." "Variety" opened its