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You're My Everything (film)
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Wikipedia article
'You're My Everything' is a 1949 American comedy musical film directed by Walter Lang and starring Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter.'[http://allmovie.com/work/youre-my-everything-118027 You're My Everything]', allmovie.com
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. 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.
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