You Were Meant for Me (film)


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. 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 ", and "Ain't Misbehavin'".

Plot summary

Chuck Arnold is a bandleader during the 1920s. He meets hometown girl Peggy Mayhew, 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 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.

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