| Everybody Does It | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Edmund Goulding |
| Screenplay by | Nunnally Johnson |
| Story by | James M. Cain |
| Produced by | Nunnally Johnson |
| Starring | Paul Douglas Linda Darnell Celeste Holm |
| Cinematography | Joseph LaShelle |
| Edited by | Robert Fritch |
| Music by | Alfred Newman |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.6 million (US rentals)[1][2] |
Everybody Does It is a 1949 American comedy film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell and Celeste Holm. In the film, a businessman's wife tries to become an opera star, failing miserably due to her lack of talent. When it turns out that her totally untrained husband is found to have a marvelous singing voice and goes on tour under an assumed name, his wife is livid.[3]
Darnell sings long stretches of an imaginary opera, L'Amore di Fatima. The music for it was written by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. In a little tongue-in-cheek detail, the poster for the opera lists Tedesco – who wrote real operas — as the composer. To add to the illusion of the opera's authenticity, Douglas also sings some known songs, including a musical setting of the Rudyard Kipling poem Mandalay and the Toreador Song from Carmen. The operatic scenes were staged by Vladimir Rosing.
The film is a word-for-word remake of 1939's Wife, Husband and Friend, which starred Warner Baxter as Borland, Loretta Young as his wife, and Binnie Barnes as Cecil Carver.
- ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 223
- ^ "Top Grossers of 1949". Variety. 4 January 1950. p. 59.
- ^ Everybody Does It at the TCM Movie Database.