Everything I Have Is Yours

Pamela Hubbard (Marge Champion) and Chuck Hubbard (Gower Champion) are a married song and dance team. The newcomers garner some praise. Pamela gets pregnant and Chuck has to get a replacement.

The Champions are a real-life married song and dance team. They are professionals, never more or never less. For their acting, they are a bit stiff in a 50's golly gee stage acting way. This movie stalls whenever it tries to do drama. I never doubted their relationships, both private and professional. So the drama isn't there and there is no tension. I love the old style pretty musical numbers, but there isn't much more to this movie than that. It gets a little boring.

Even with the talented MARGE and GOWER CHAMPION as the stars, EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS is a dreadfully unoriginal backstage story of stage stars whose marriage is on the rocks when the wife discovers she is pregnant before the run of a hit show. Hubby goes on with another actress--and well, you can guess the rest.

Nothing is inspired about the songs which brings all the action to a halt whenever the script calls for a song cue. In other words, unlike most MGM musicals, none of the songs are integrated into the witless plot.

And surprisingly, none of the choreography suggests anything even approaching the routines the duo did in their big MGM hit, SHOW BOAT, where they had some outstanding song-and-dance routines.

This is strictly a programmer, the kind of film that played the lower half of double bills when it opened.

The dancing, choreography and costumes were great. Very entertaining.

This bright Technicolor vehicle for Marge and Gower Champion is chock full of well-choreographed musical numbers - especially the very sexy "Cairo." The film had a high rating on IMDb until it received a (well-written) negative review.

The divorce drama doesn't get in the way of the music, and Dennis O'Keefe is excellent as the divorce lawyer. Marge and Gower are also good. Especially Gower - who's as cute as a button - as a hypochondriac.

Every other film that featured Marge and Gower Champion had so-so choreography at best, which makes this one a welcome pleasure.

This *is* a small musical compared to a film such as "The Band Wagon," but it's enormously entertaining in its own right.

The Champions were usually supporting players at MGM, so staring them in their own vehicle was something of a risk. It didn't pay off financially, and artistically it's indifferent, but it does allow the gifted husband-and-wife team more elbow room than usual. A soap opera plot about a Champion-like couple whose marriage is threatened by his success (and leading lady) while she raises the baby in the suburbs is no help at all, and neither Marge nor Gower is entirely comfortable acting. But there are several bright numbers, including the smoky "Cairo," a nifty "Derry Down Dilly" (with a nifty Johnny Mercer lyric) that shows Marge off to her best advantage, and a very MGM dream ballet near the end where she pines for him. The supporting cast is so- so; Monica Lewis, so delectable the year before in "Excuse My Dust" and here playing the Other Woman, has such an unsympathetic part that this may well have killed her career, and Dennis O'Keefe, as the faithful producer silently and vainly in love with Marge, can't do much with a walking cliché of a role. But if you can suffer through the plot, you'll find your way to some classy musical diversion. Gower did his own choreography, with Nick Castle, and it's a chance to see an early example of the great dance stager he would become.