This Time for Keeps is an American romantic musical film released in 1947 and produced by MGM. It is about a soldier, returning home from war, who does not wish to work for his father's opera company or to continue his relationship with his pre-war lover. It stars Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante, Johnnie Johnston and opera singer Lauritz Melchior and was directed by Richard Thorpe. 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.