You're My Everything (film)

1949 film by Walter Lang

August 1949 (1949-08)

Running time

94 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBox office$2.4 million^[1]

You're My Everything is a 1949 American comedy musical film directed by Walter Lang and starring Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter.^[2]

Plot

Boston, 1924: A starstruck Hannah Adams waits outside in the rain to meet Tim O'Connor, who has just performed in a musical on stage. She invites him home to meet her family, and soon, they are in love and getting married.

Tim gets a Hollywood screen test. Hannah is asked to read with him, and ends up the one being offered a contract. She becomes a star in silent movies. At the advent of sound, she retires to have a baby and live with Tim on a farm.

Their daughter, Jane, is taken by Tim to studio chief Henry Mercer when a child's role in a film becomes available. A hesitant Hannah agrees to let her daughter be in just one movie, but Tim conceals the fact that Jane is being given a three-picture contract. The conflict threatens to break up the family.

Cast

Dan Dailey as Timothy O'Connor
Anne Baxter as Hannah Adams
Anne Revere as Aunt Jane
Stanley Ridges as Mr. Henry Mercer
Shari Robinson as Jane O'Connor
Henry O'Neill as Prof. Adams
Selena Royle as Mrs. Adams
Alan Mowbray as Joe Blanton
Robert Arthur as Harold
Buster Keaton as Butler

Radio adaptation

You're My Everything was first presented in a one-hour adaptation starring Anne Baxter and Phil Harris, on Lux Radio Theatre on November 27, 1950.^[3] Harris was a last-minute replacement for Dailey, who was ill. It was re-done on Lux on February 23, 1953, starring Dailey and Jeanne Crain.^[4]

References

^ "Top Grossers of 1949". Variety. 4 January 1950. p. 59.
^ You're My Everything, allmovie.com
^ "Radio Programs". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1950-11-27. p. 23. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
^ Kirby, Walter (February 22, 1953). "Better Radio Programs for the Week". The Decatur Daily Review. The Decatur Daily Review. p. 40. Retrieved June 23, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.