You Can't Have Everything
1937 film by Norman Taurog
- August 3, 1937 (1937-08-03)
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You Can't Have Everything is a 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 over.
Cast
- Alice Faye – Judith Poe Wells
- Don Ameche – George Macrae
- Al Ritz – Al Ritz
- Jimmy Ritz – Jimmy Ritz
- Harry Ritz – Harry Ritz
- Charles Winninger – Sam Gordon
- Gypsy Rose Lee – Lulu Riley
- Arthur Treacher – Bevins
- Tony Martin – Bobby Walker
- David Rubinoff – Rubinoff and His Violin
- Tip, Tap and Toe
Soundtrack
- You Can't Have Everything
- Sung by Alice Faye; reprised by The Ritz Brothers, Composer: M. Gordon, H. Revel
- Chopsticks
- Performed by The Ritz Brothers
- Danse Rubinoff
- Instrumental, written and played by David Rubinoff
- Long Underwear
- Sung and danced by The Ritz Brothers and chorus
- The Loveliness of You
- Sung by Tony Martin
- Afraid to Dream
- Sung by Don Ameche; reprised by Alice Faye, Tony Martin, chorus
- Please Pardon Us - We're in Love
- Sung by Alice Faye; reprised by her, Don Ameche, Charles Winninger, The Ritz Brothers
- Rhythm on the Radio
- Danced by "Tip, Tap and Toe"
- North Pole Sketch
- Performed by The Ritz Brothers, Tony Martin, others
- Other releases
Doris Day recorded the title track "You Can't Have Everything" by M. Gordon, H. Revel in 1960, along with "A Hundred Years From Today" by J. Young, N. Washington, V. Young, and "What Every Girl Should Know" by R. Wells, D. Holt and "Mood Indigo" by D. Ellington, I. Mills, A. Bigard
External links
- You Can't Have Everything at IMDb
- You Can't Have Everything at AllMovie
- You Can't Have Everything at the TCM Movie Database
- You Can't Have Everything at the American Film Institute Catalog
- You Can't Have Everything film clip on YouTube
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Films directed by Norman Taurog
- Lucky Boy (1929)
- The Diplomats (1929)
- In Holland (1929)
- The Medicine Men (1929)
- Troopers Three (1930)
- Sunny Skies (1930)
- Hot Curves (1930)
- Follow the Leader (1930)
- Finn and Hattie (1931)
- Skippy (1931)
- Forbidden Adventure (1931)
- Huckleberry Finn (1931)
- Sooky (1931)
- Hold 'Em Jail (1932)
- The Phantom President (1932)
- If I Had a Million (segments "Prologue" and "Epilogue", 1932)
- A Bedtime Story (1933)
- The Way to Love (1933)
- We're Not Dressing (1934)
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)
- College Rhythm (1934)
- The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1936)
- Strike Me Pink (1936)
- Rhythm on the Range (1936)
- Reunion (1936)
- Fifty Roads to Town (1937)
- You Can't Have Everything (1937)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
- Mad About Music (1938)
- Boys Town (1938)
- The Girl Downstairs (1938)
- Lucky Night (1939)
- Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
- Young Tom Edison (1940)
- Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
- Men of Boys Town (1941)
- Design for Scandal (1941)
- Are Husbands Necessary? (1942)
- A Yank at Eton (1942)
- Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
- Girl Crazy (1943)
- The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
- The Beginning or the End (1947)
- The Bride Goes Wild (1948)
- Big City (1948)
- Words and Music (1948)
- That Midnight Kiss (1949)
- Please Believe Me (1950)
- The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
- Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
- Rich, Young and Pretty (1951)
- Room for One More (1952)
- Jumping Jacks (1952)
- The Stooge (1953)
- The Stars Are Singing (1953)
- The Caddy (1953)
- Living It Up (1954)
- You're Never Too Young (1954)
- The Birds and the Bees (1956)
- Pardners (1956)
- Bundle of Joy (1956)
- The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1958)
- Onionhead (1958)
- Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)
- Visit to a Small Planet (1960)
- G.I. Blues (1960)
- All Hands on Deck (1961)
- Blue Hawaii (1961)
- Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
- It Happened at the World's Fair (1962)
- Palm Springs Weekend (1963)
- Tickle Me (1965)
- Sergeant Deadhead (1965)
- Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
- Spinout (1966)
- Double Trouble (1967)
- Speedway (1968)
- Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
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