Everybody Does It (1949)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Edmund Goulding

Writers:

James M. Cain (story)
Nunnally Johnson (writer)

Release Date:

16 January 1950 (Sweden)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more...

Plot Keywords:

Opera | Husband Wife Relationship | Beautiful Woman | Singing

Cast

Paul Douglas	...	Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett
Linda Darnell	...	Cecil Carver
Celeste Holm	...	Doris Blair Borland
Charles Coburn	...	Major Blair (Doris's father)
Millard Mitchell	...	Mike Craig
Lucile Watson	...	Mrs. Blair (Doris's mother)
John Hoyt	...	Wilkins
George Tobias	...	Rossi
Leon Belasco	...	Prof. Hugo (Doris's singing teacher)
Tito Vuolo	...	Makeup man

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Italian

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Finland:S | Sweden:Btl

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In an early scene with his office secretary, Borland (Douglas) mispronounces the word "municipal". It came out "muniCIpal," as though the word was the name of a building rather than a category of building.

Movie Connections:

Version of Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)

Soundtrack:

Chanson du toréador (The Toreador Song)

Esquire Magazine Voted this film one of the 25 best sleepers.

This is one of the best post war comedies. The performance of Paul Douglas is perfect against Linda Darnell. It has been said that Celeste Holm had to learn how not to sing, in order that she carry out this role.