Everybody Does It

Everybody Does It is a 1949 comedy film 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.

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.

Cast

• Paul Douglas as Leonard Borland
• Linda Darnell as Cecil Carver
• Celeste Holm as Doris Borland
• Charles Coburn as Major Blair
• Millard Mitchell as Mike Craig
• Lucile Watson as Mrs. Blair
• John Hoyt as Wilkins
• Leon Belasco as Professor Hugo
• George Tobias as Rossi

Music

• Original music by Alfred Newman and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
• Music by Richard A. Whiting and Frank Harling
• Lyrics by Leo Robin
• Songs performed by New York City Opera baritone Stephen Kemalyan, who dubbed for Paul Douglas
• Songs performed by San Francisco Opera soprano Helen Spann, who dubbed for Linda Darnell

External links

• Everybody Does It at the TCM Movie Database
• Everybody Does It at the Internet Movie Database
• Everybody Does It at AllRovi
• Movie Dubbers