You're My Everything
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Walter Lang
Dan Dailey
Anne Baxter
Anne Revere
Stanley Ridges
Shari Robinson
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In Boston, in 1924, Hannah Adams attends a matinee of a stage musical she has already seen several times, The Girl from Vassar , co-starring Timothy O'Connor. Hannah idolizes Tim and after the show, waits in pouring rain near the stage door for him to emerge. When he asks her about restaurants nearby, Hannah tells him about a place with home cooked meals and the actor goes with her to Louisburg Square, unaware that she is taking him to her home. There, she introduces him to her father, a professor, her mother, Aunt Jane and younger brother Mark. Hannah changes into a pretty dress and they all sit down to dinner. Later, as Tim leaves, he invites Hannah to lunch the following day and kisses her goodnight. After lunch, they have dinner together, but when Tim takes her home, Hannah tells him they should not see each other again. Some time later, Tim shows up at a restaurant where Hannah and Aunt Jane, who has sent Tim a note in Hannah's name asking him to come, are having an afternoon snack. Although their family backgrounds are very different, Tim ends up proposing to Hannah. They discover that the knowing Jane has already arranged for the ceremony, flowers and ring. After they are married, Hannah goes on the road with Tim and even performs with the show's chorus. While they are in Chicago, Eddie Pflum, a talent scout for Superior Pictures, arranges for Tim to have a screen test in Los Angeles. There he meets studio head Henry Mercer, and Hannah is drafted to act in a love scene with Tim. Later, in their room at the Hollywood Hotel, Tim tells Hannah that the studio thinks it was one of the greatest tests ever made and wants to sign not him, but her. Hannah is reluctant to do it but eventually signs, becoming a big star in silent pictures while Tim continues his career on the stage. Time passes and Hannah is named the number one box office star for the third successive year. When Hannah finishes a picture and has to start another immediately, she is disappointed as she wants to spend time with Tim, who is performing in a Chicago nightclub. She goes there and surprises him, explaining that the studio postponed the picture after she told them she was going to have a baby, a lie which soon becomes a reality. While Hannah is away from the studio giving birth to a baby daughter, Jane, sound comes to the movies. Mercer offers Hannah the opportunity to continue in "talkies," but she chooses to retire and rear her daughter. However, she does promote Tim for a musical the studio is preparing and he appears in Song and Dance Man and becomes a star. When Jane is six years old, Tim and Hannah have a major dispute about his taking Jane out of school to watch him work at the studio. Tim tells Hannah not to worry as musicals are not doing well at the box office and he is contemplating retiring and becoming a farmer. Four years later, on their expansive ranch, the now retired Tim and Jane read in the trade papers that Superior Pictures has shut down a film due to the illness of its child star. Tim takes Jane to the studio and performs an audition with her for Mercer, who decides to restart the film with Jane as the lead. Hannah does not want Jane working in films but relents on the understanding that she will appear in only one picture. The film is a Civil War drama, Rebel in Crinoline and Tim is also cast as a black butler. Immediately upon finishing Rebel , the studio prepares to start another picture with Jane. Hannah is adamant that Jane not make any more pictures and realizes that Tim lied to her about the original contract. Hannah leaves for Boston taking Jane with her. Later, Mercer tells Tim, who has not heard from Hannah since her departure, that Rebel is to have its premiere in Boston. Jane attends the Boston premiere with her mother and grandmother and is introduced on stage after the screening. Tim shows up in the wings, having received another communication from Aunt Jane in Hannah's name, and reunites with his wife.
Director
Walter Lang
Cast
Dan Dailey
Anne Baxter
Anne Revere
Stanley Ridges
Shari Robinson
Henry O'neill
Selena Royle
Alan Mowbray
Robert Arthur
Buster Keaton
Phyllis Kennedy
Mack Gordon
Nyas Berry
Warren Berry
Chester Jones
John Hiestand
Hal K. Dawson
Charles Lane
Ruth Clifford
Joe Haworth
Libby Taylor
Geraldine Harris
J. Farrell Macdonald
Charles Tannen
Douglas Gerrard
Dave Morris
Lee Macgregor
Bob Adler
Don Hicks
Michael Patrick Mcgarry
Patricia Weil
Sherry Jackson
Sam Silver
George Nokes
Harry Carter
Mary Field
George Beranger
Albin Robeling
John Davidson
Peter Gowland
Robert Garvin
Jack Mulhall
Bert Hicks
Marion Gray
Stuart Holmes
Frank Grandetta
Frank Johnson
Crew
Don Anderson
Arthur E. Arling
Irene Brooks
Lew Brown
Jerry Bryan
Bonnie Cashin
Nick Castle
Sidney Clare
Ken Darby
Buddy Desylva
Mort Dixon
Leonard Doss
A. F. Erickson
Leland Fuller
Gaston Glass
Mack Gordon
Earle Hagen
Fred Hall
Will H. Hays Jr.
Roger Heman
Charles Henderson
Ray Henderson
Natalie Kalmus
Ann Kirk
Ernest Lansing
Charles Lemaire
George Leverett
Thomas Little
James V. Monaco
Roger Murphy
Josef Myrow
Alfred Newman
Ben Nye
Ernie Parks
Edward Powell
Frank Prehoda
Catherine Reed
Billy Rose
Harry Ruskin
Emmett Schoenbaum
Fred Sersen
Herbert Spencer
Henry Sullivan
Urban Thielman
Lamar Trotti
Lamar Trotti
Harry Warren
J. Watson Webb Jr.
Lyle Wheeler
Richard A. Whiting
Joe Young
Darryl F. Zanuck
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
The role of Hannah was originally intended for Jeanne Crain who dropped out when she became pregnant.
Notes
According to documents in the Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department at the UCLA Arts-Special Collections Library, the studio bought the rights to George Jessel's short story for $5,000. In the original story, the child was a boy and the story ended with the family dog winning its turn at stardom. A August 25, 1948 Los Angeles Times news item announced that Jeanne Crain would star in this film. In an apparent effort to promote Shari Robinson as the next Shirley Temple, Fox's most famous child star, the studio featured her in a song closely associated with Temple-"On the Good Ship Lollipop." In addition, the film-within-the-film, Rebel in Crinoline, is very reminiscent of one of Temple's biggest Fox hits, The Littlest Rebel. The only "song" listed in the credit titles, the Myrow/Gordon collaboration on I Want to Be Teacher's Pet is not a song per se but is special material used as a lead-in to The Varsity Drag production number. Some of the actors included in the CBCS list and trade publications were deleted from the final cut. A sequence involving character actor Robert Emmett Keane as an architect designing the O'Connor ranch was dropped. Vincent Graeff, Rita LeRoy and Sammy McKim were also listed, but did not appear in the viewed print. A radio version of You're My Everything was broadcast twice on the Lux Radio Theatre, first on November 27, 1950 with Phil Harris and Anne Baxter, and again on February 23, 1953 with Dan Dailey and Jeanne Crain. Sam Silver, who appears in the film giving studio head Mercer a haircut, was executive producer Darryl F. Zanuck's personal barber.
