By Violet LeVoit
Everything I Have Is Yours
Brief Synopsis
On the eve of her big Broadway break, a dancer discovers she's pregnant.
Cast & Crew
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Robert Z. Leonard
Director
Marge Champion
Pamela Hubbard
Gower Champion
Chuck Hubbard
Dennis O'keefe
Alec Tackabury
Monica Lewis
Sybil Meriden
Dean Miller
Monty Dunstan
Film Details
Genre
Musical
Drama
Release Date
Oct
31,
1952
Premiere Information
New York opening: 29 Oct 1952
Production Company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Distribution Company
Loew's Inc.
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 32m
Film Length
8,247ft
(11 reels)
Synopsis
Just before married dancers Pamela and Chuck Hubbard make their Broadway debut in Alec Tackabury's new show, Pam is nervous, exhausted and unable to eat. Chuck, who frequently develops empathetic symptoms whenever Pam is ill, thinks she is just anxious and to show his love gives her a beautiful charm bracelet depicting them dancing. The musical is a smash hit, but just after the curtains close, Pam collapses. A doctor reveals what even Pam had not suspected, that she is going to have a baby. Although the doctor says that Pam could remain with the show for a while, Pam decides to quit that night. Alec is disappointed that his newly discovered team will be breaking up, but is very understanding and decides that understudy Sybil Meriden must take Pam's place. Although a nervous wreck before the show, Sybil is also a hit with audiences and soon becomes Chuck's permanent partner. As soon as baby Pamela is born, Chuck decides that they should buy a house in Connecticut, near Alec, and tells Pam that they have enough money for her to stay at home with the baby. Although Pam is reluctant to leave show business, she agrees. By the time that little Pamela is three and a half, Sybil and Chuck have been in several successful shows, while Pam has stayed at home. Because they have servants, Pam has little to do but work at her hobbies and play with Pamela. One day, Chuck comes home with Sybil, their friend Monty Dunstan, columnist Ed Holly and several others for an impromptu weekend visit. Pam, who has been frustrated about being away from show business and grown jealous of Sybil, is delighted to be asked to sing and dance at a barbecue that night. Chuck is surprised to learn that Pam has secretly been practicing and becomes jealous when she says that Alec has been talking about a new show for the two of them. Before Chuck goes back to New York, he and Pam finally make up, but he dismisses her suggestion that they do Alec's show. After he leaves, Pam tells Alec that they will have to find a new leading man and decides to do the show herself. Soon Holly announces on a radio broadcast that although Pam and Chuck are working in adjacent studios, they are filing for divorce. After meeting with their lawyer, Phil Neisner, Pam and Chuck work out a property settlement and joint custody agreement. Chuck still thinks that little Pamela should not be around show business but soon comes to realize that she enjoys backstage life. When Pam's show goes to Boston for out-of-town tryouts, Chuck barely misses seeing them off on the train and has trouble reaching her hotel. Sybil, who is jealous of Pam, suggests to Chuck that she is probably out celebrating, then, when Pam calls Chuck, she is hurt when she hears Sybil's voice in the background. After getting off the phone, Pam is counseled by Alec to reconsider the divorce, but admits that Chuck's jealousy of him was not unfounded. After he leaves, Pam looks at the charm bracelet and starts to cry, but is comforted by little Pamela. A few days later, in Chuck's dressing room, Sybil makes a play for him but is completely rejected. After she leaves, Alec comes in and says that Pam does not know he is in New York but his play is in trouble and he has spoken with Chuck's producer about having Chuck leave the current show to begin rehearsing with Pam. When Chuck refuses the offer, Alec decides to evoke sympathy pangs in Chuck by saying that Pam has back pains and has been seeing spots. Chuck gets so agitated after hearing of Pam's supposed conditions that he comes down with additional symptoms and soon decides to join her in Boston. When he arrives at her hotel, Pam at first does not know what he is talking about when he tries to compare the size of the spots they both see, but soon realizes what Alec has done and plays along. When little Pamela sees her father, she is ecstatic, especially when Chuck says that he is going to stay and take care of Pam. Just then, the desk clerk calls, inquiring about where to send Chuck's bags. Chuck says emphatically, "here, of course," and Pam adds "and the trunk, too." Finally reconciled, the couple happily dances around the room.
Director
Robert Z. Leonard
Director
Cast
Marge Champion
Pamela Hubbard
Gower Champion
Chuck Hubbard
Dennis O'keefe
Alec Tackabury
Monica Lewis
Sybil Meriden
Dean Miller
Monty Dunstan
Eduard Franz
Phil Meisner
John Gallaudet
Editor Holly
Diane Cassidy
Showgirl
Elaine Stewart
Showgirl
Jonathan Cott
Freddie
Robert Burton
Dr. Charles
Jean Fenwick
Mrs. Tirson
Mimi Gibson
Pamela, age 3½
Wilson Wood
Roy Tirson
Maudie Prickett
Ella
Pat Goldin
Bored waiter
Jim Hayward
Noel, electrician
Perry Sheehan
Betsy
Ralph Peters
Frank, electrician
Lennie Bremen
Taxi driver
Kay English
Nurse Janns
Jo Gilbert
Nurse
Kay Wiley
Nurse
Beatrice Gray
Nurse
Margaret Bert
Wardrobe mistress
Pat O'malley
Conductor
Miguel Conteras
Guide
Aram Katcher
Guide
Cy Stevens
Todd Turner
Felice Richmond
Margo Turner
Margaret Brayton
Miss Jenkins
Barry Regan
Waiter
Jack Gargan
Waiter
Eula Guy
Emily
Crew
Harold Adamson
Composer
Peter Ballbusch
Montage Sequence
Nick Castle
Music numbers staged by
Gower Champion
Music numbers staged by
Saul Chaplin
Composer
Walter Donaldson
Composer
Randall Duell
Art Director
Alvord Eiseman
Color Consultant
Adrienne Fazan
Film Editor
Ruth Brooks Flippen
Additional Dialogue
Chet Forrest
Composer
Douglas Furber
Composer
Cedric Gibbons
Art Director
Bert Glazer
Assistant Director
Johnny Green
Composer
Clifford Grey
Composer
Sydney Guilaroff
Hair styles by
Henri Jaffa
Technicolor Color Consultant
Gus Kahn
Composer
Burton Lane
Composer
Jacque Mapes
Set Decoration
Johnny Mercer
Composer
Warren Newcombe
Special Effects
Rex Newman
Composer
Richard Priborsky
Composer
David Rose
Music Director
Helen Rose
Women's Costume Designer
Douglas Shearer
Recording Supervisor
George Sidney
Fill-In Director
William V. Skall
Director of Photography
William Tuttle
Makeup created by
Charles Wallace
Sound
George Wells
Producer
George Wells
Writer
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
Bob Wright
Composer
Film Details
Genre
Musical
Drama
Release Date
Oct
31,
1952
Premiere Information
New York opening: 29 Oct 1952
Production Company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Distribution Company
Loew's Inc.
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 32m
Film Length
8,247ft
(11 reels)
Articles
Everything I Have Is Yours
Married dance partners extraordinaire Marge and Gower Champion tango with each other in their first starring role, a forgotten dance musical -- and surprisingly honest comedy -- about the frustrations, jealousies and terrors of marriage and new parenthood. Broadway dancers Pamela and Chuck Hubbard (the Champions, art imitating life) are at a high point in their career. But when Pamela collapses backstage after opening night, it's clear things are going to change in the Hubbard marriage once baby makes three (and glamorous understudy Sybil (Monica Lewis) makes four). Originally slated to star Red Skelton and Vera-Ellen, Marge and Gower Champion signed on instead, with Gower contributing much of the choreography, after recovering from a bout of appendicitis in rehearsal. In a musical full of fun numbers, the most striking might be "Casbah", a ballet parable about a mousy tourist (Marge) being seduced by a black-shirted swain (Gower) in an exotic, faraway bar. The footloose interplay between the two characters is shot through with a tart undercurrent of mutual understanding, frustration, and magnetic connection -- the kind of pas de deux only a married couple can truly understand.
By Violet LeVoit
By Violet LeVoit
Everything I Have Is Yours
Married dance partners extraordinaire Marge and Gower Champion tango with each other in their first starring role, a forgotten dance musical -- and surprisingly honest comedy -- about the frustrations, jealousies and terrors of marriage and new parenthood. Broadway dancers Pamela and Chuck Hubbard (the Champions, art imitating life) are at a high point in their career. But when Pamela collapses backstage after opening night, it's clear things are going to change in the Hubbard marriage once baby makes three (and glamorous understudy Sybil (Monica Lewis) makes four). Originally slated to star Red Skelton and Vera-Ellen, Marge and Gower Champion signed on instead, with Gower contributing much of the choreography, after recovering from a bout of appendicitis in rehearsal. In a musical full of fun numbers, the most striking might be "Casbah", a ballet parable about a mousy tourist (Marge) being seduced by a black-shirted swain (Gower) in an exotic, faraway bar. The footloose interplay between the two characters is shot through with a tart undercurrent of mutual understanding, frustration, and magnetic connection -- the kind of pas de deux only a married couple can truly understand.
By Violet LeVoit
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According to Hollywood Reporter news items, Red Skelton was to have starred in the film. Other Hollywood Reporter news items mentioned that producer-director George Sidney replaced director Robert Z. Leonard for five days when Leonard was ill. Everything I Have Is Yours marked the first starring film role for the then-married dance team of Marge and Gower Champion, and George Wells' first producing assignment for M-G-M.
