Behave Yourself!
Behave Yourself! theatrical poster
Directed by	George Beck
Screenplay by	George Beck
Story by	George Beck Frank Tarloff
Produced by	Norman Krasna (producer) Stanley Rubin (associate producer) Jerry Wald (producer)
Starring	Farley Granger Shelley Winters William Demarest
Cinematography	James Wong Howe
Edited by	Paul Weatherwax
Music by	Leigh Harline
Production company	Wald/Krasna Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release dates	September 19, 1951 (1951-09-19) (Premiere-Kansas City, MO)[1] September 22, 1951 (1951-09-22) (US)[1]
Running time	81 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1 million[2]

Behave Yourself! is a 1951 American comedy film directed and cowritten by George Beck, starring Farley Granger and Shelley Winters and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

Mild mannered young CPA Bill Denny forgets about his and his wife Kate's second anniversary until the last minute, when a small dog starts to follow him. After Kate mistakes the dog for her present, mayhem ensues, and Bill is chased by police, smugglers, counterfeiters and murderers while being harassed by his mother-in-law.

• Farley Granger as William Calhoun 'Bill' Denny
• Shelley Winters as Kate Denny
• William Demarest as Officer O'Ryan
• Francis L. Sullivan as Fat Freddy
• Margalo Gillmore as Mother
• Lon Chaney Jr. as Pinky
• Hans Conried as Gillie the Blade
• Elisha Cook Jr. as Albert Jonas
• Glenn Anders as Pete the Pusher
• Allen Jenkins as Plainclothesman
• Sheldon Leonard as Shortwave Bert
• Marvin Kaplan as Max the Umbrella
• Archie as himself
• Henry Corden as Numi

The film was written in four days and was originally intended to be a vehicle for Cary Grant.^[3]

• "Behave Yourself!" (By Lew Spence and Buddy Ebsen)

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• Behave Yourself! at IMDb
• Behave Yourself! at the TCM Movie Database
• Behave Yourself! at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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