You Were Meant for Me (film)

You Were Meant for Me
You Were Meant for Me
Directed by	Lloyd Bacon
Written by	Valentine Davies;
Produced by	Fred Kohlmar
Starring	Dan Dailey; Jeanne Crain; Oscar Levant; Herbert Anderson; Barbara Lawrence
Cinematography	Victor Milner
Edited by	William H. Reynolds
Music by	Alfred Newman; Lionel Newman
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Release date	February 1, 1948 (U.S.);
Running time	92 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2 million (US rentals)

You Were Meant for Me is a 1948 musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Dan Dailey and Jeanne Crain as a bandleader and his wife. It was released by 20th Century Fox.^[2] The film includes performances of "You Were Meant for Me", "I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)", and "Ain't Misbehavin'".

Marilyn Monroe may have worked on the film as an uncredited extra.^[3]

Plot summary[]

Chuck Arnold (Dan Dailey) is a bandleader during the 1920s. He meets hometown girl Peggy Mayhew (Jeanne Crain), a flapper script girl, at one of the band's presentations, and the next day, they get married. Though she loves him, life on the road becomes increasingly difficult for her, and eventually, with the onset of the Great Depression, in 1929, she tires of it, and returns to her country home. Unable to find new bookings, he soon joins her, and brings with him Oscar Hoffman (Oscar Levant) his acerbic, cynical manager. The bandleader finds the pastoral life a crashing bore, and so, he heads for the big city to find fortune. This time, he succeeds, and happiness is the result.^[4]

Cast[]

Jeanne Crain as Peggy Mayhew
Dan Dailey as Chuck Arnold
Oscar Levant as Oscar Hoffman
Barbara Lawrence as Louise Crane
Selena Royle as Mrs. Cora Mayhew
Percy Kilbride as Mr. Andrew Mayhew
Herbert Anderson as Eddie
Harry Barris as Harry, the pianist

Soundtracks[]

Concerto in F
- Music by George Gershwin
Happy Days Are Here Again
- Music by Milton Ager
- Lyrics by Jack Yellen
Lilacs in the Rain
- Music by Peter De Rose
You Were Meant for Me
- Music by Nacio Herb Brown
- Lyrics by Arthur Freed
If I Had You
- Written by Ted Shapiro, Jimmy Campbell, and Reginald Connelly
Can't Sleep a Wink
- Written by Charles Henderson
Crazy Rhythm
- Music by Joseph Meyer and Roger Wolfe Kahn
- Lyrics by Irving Caesar
I'll Get By
- Music by Fred E. Ahlert
- Lyrics by Roy Turk
Good Night, Sweetheart
- Written by Ray Noble, Jimmy Campbell, and Reginald Connelly
Ain't Misbehavin'
- Music by Fats Waller and Harry Brooks
- Lyrics by Andy Razaf
Ain't She Sweet?
- Music by Milton Ager
- Lyrics by Jack Yellen

References[]

^ "Top Grossers of 1948", Variety 5 January 1949 p 46
^ Barry Monush (2003). Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965. p. 156. ISBN 9781557835512. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
^ J. Randy Taraborrelli (August 25, 2009). The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (eBook ed.). ISBN 9780446550956. Retrieved July 4, 2011. ...if you count You Were Made for Me, a Jeannie Crain-Dan Dailey musical, one that some sources maintain is a part of Monroe's filmography.
^ http://www.allmovie.com/movie/you-were-meant-for-me-v118014

External links[]

You Were Meant for Me at IMDb
You Were Meant for Me at AllMovie
You Were Meant for Me at the TCM Movie Database
You Were Meant for Me at the American Film Institute Catalog

[1] "Top Grossers of 1948", Variety 5 January 1949 p 46

[2] Barry Monush (2003). Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965. p. 156. ISBN 9781557835512. Retrieved July 4, 2011.

[3] J. Randy Taraborrelli (August 25, 2009). The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (eBook ed.). ISBN 9780446550956. Retrieved July 4, 2011. ...if you count You Were Made for Me, a Jeannie Crain-Dan Dailey musical, one that some sources maintain is a part of Monroe's filmography.

[4] ttp://www.allmovie.com/movie/you-were-meant-for-me-v118014

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