You Can't Have Everything
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...
Norman Taurog
Casts & Crew
Alice Faye
Don Ameche
Charles Winninger
Gypsy Rose Lee
Arthur Treacher
Tony Martin
Phyllis Brooks
Wally Vernon
Louis Prima
George Davis
Joan Davis
Tip Tap & Toe
George Humbert
Jed Prouty
Dorothy Christy
Sam Ash
Lynn Bari
Lynne Berkeley
Clara Blandick
Tyler Brooke
Howard Cantonwine
Claudia Coleman
Frances Drake
Bill Elliott
Clarette Ellis
Margaret Fielding
Ted Fraser
June Gale
Mary Gordon
Samuel Green
Philippa Hilber
Paul Hurst
Si Jenks
Jane Kerr
Tommy Klein
Robert Lowery
Hank Mann
William Mathieson
Paul McVey
Marie Melesh
Nick Moro
Bob Murphy
Inez Palange
Thomas Pogue
Lillian Porter
Frank Puglia
Jayne Regan
Al Ritz
Harry Ritz
Jimmy Ritz
Floyd Shackelford
Mary Stewart
Bonita Weber
Ray Winfield
Frank Yaconelli
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