You Can't Have Everything

“IT REACHES NEW HI-DE-HEIGHTS OF HILARITY!”

5.7

1937

1h 40m

ComedyRomance

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...

Key Crew

Director

Norman Taurog

Writers

Harry Tugend

Jack Yellen

Karl Tunberg

Cinematography

Lucien N. Andriot

Music

Mack Gordon

Cast (55)

Alice Faye

Judith Poe Wells

Al Ritz

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