You Can't Have Everything (1937)
1937 · Feature film · 100 min · dir. Norman Taurog
IT REACHES NEW HI-DE-HEIGHTS OF HILARITY!
- Comedy
- Romance
Synopsis
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Norman Taurog
- Writer
- Harry Tugend
- Composer
- Mack Gordon
- Cinematography
- Lucien N. Andriot
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
- Released
- 1937-08-02
- Running time
- 100 minutes
Cast & crew
Norman Taurog Director
Alice Faye
Al Ritz
Harry Ritz
Jimmy Ritz
Don Ameche
Charles Winninger
Gypsy Rose Lee
David Rubinoff
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · You Can't Have Everything · Smokr0 · 2023-05-26
1937 Fox musical film directed by Norman Taurog and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film stars Alice Faye and Don Ameche, and was the film debut for Gypsy Rose Lee credited as Louise Hovick part of her birth name. Plot Judith Poe Wells (Alice Faye) is a would-be playwright who has almost no money. As a result of ordering a meal in a restaurant where she cannot afford to pay, she meets George Macrae (Don Ameche), a musical writer with a lot of power. He offers her play North Winds to producer Sam Woods. He knows it isn't any good, but he has fallen in love with her and does it to win her…
