You Can't Have Everything

The first of six films costarring Alice Faye and Don Ameche, YOU CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING casts Faye as struggling writer Judith Poe Wells, a direct descendant of Edgar Allan Poe. When Judith orders more food than she can pay for at a restaurant, she is reduced to carrying a sandwich board advertising the place in order to pay off her bill. She politely refuses an offer of help from the drunk but gallant George Macrae (Ameche), incidentally telling him that she is trying to sell a play to a producer, Sam Gordon (Charles Winninger). As luck would have it, George knows Sam, and talks him into paying Judith $250 for her play, "North Wind," although it's a wretched piece ...