You Were Meant for Me (film)
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| Directed by | Lloyd Bacon |
| Produced by | Fred Kohlmar |
| Written by |
Valentine Davies Elick Moll |
| Starring |
Dan Dailey Jeanne Crain Oscar Levant Herbert Anderson Barbara Lawrence |
| Music by |
Alfred Newman Lionel Newman |
| Cinematography | Victor Milner |
| Edited by | William H. Reynolds |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
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92 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2 million (US rentals) |
You Were Meant for Me is a 1948 musical film, released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Dan Dailey and Jeanne Crain as a bandleader and his wife.Marilyn Monroe may have worked on the film as an uncredited extra. The film includes performances of "You Were Meant for Me", "I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)", and "Ain't Misbehavin'".
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 rise 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 heads for the big city to find fortune. Fortunately, this time, he succeeds and happiness is the result.
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