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You Can't Have Everything
You Can't Have Everything
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You Can't Have Everything

1937
Directed byNorman Taurog
1h 40m

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...

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Alice FayeJudith Poe WellsAl RitzAl Ritz
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Harry Ritz
Harry Ritz
Jimmy RitzJimmy Ritz
Don AmecheGeorge Macrae
Charles WinningerSam Gordon
Gypsy Rose LeeLulu Riley
David RubinoffRubinoff
Arthur TreacherBevins
Tony MartinBobby Walker
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GENRES
ComedyRomance
STATUSReleased
RATING
5.7

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