You Can't Have Everything

Aug 2, 1937

1h 40m

★ 5.7

IT REACHES NEW HI-DE-HEIGHTS OF HILARITY!

Overview

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...

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

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Cast

Judith Poe Wells

Alice Faye

Al Ritz

Harry Ritz

Jimmy Ritz

George Macrae

Don Ameche

Sam Gordon

Charles Winninger

Lulu Riley

Gypsy Rose Lee

Rubinoff

David Rubinoff

Bevins

Arthur Treacher

Bobby Walker

Tony Martin

Evelyn Moore

Phyllis Brooks

Jerry

Wally Vernon

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0.0

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4.4

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5.3

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5.3

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