The Girl Who Had Everything

The Girl Who Had Everything
Theatrical Film Poster
Directed by	Richard Thorpe
Produced by	Armand Deutsch
Written by	Screenplay: Art Cohn Play: Willard Mack Novel: Adela Rogers St. Johns
Starring	Elizabeth Taylor Fernando Lamas William Powell
Music by	André Previn
Cinematography	Paul Vogel
Edited by	Ben Lewis
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	March 27, 1953 (1953-03-27) (U.S.)
Running time	69 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$665,000^[1]
Box office	$1,218,000^[1]^[2]

The Girl Who Had Everything (1953) is a feature film directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Armande Deutsch for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film features William Powell in his last MGM feature and one of his last film roles before retirement.^[3]

The screenplay was written by Art Cohn, based upon a play by Willard Mack, which in turn was based on the novel A Free Soul by Adela Rogers St. Johns. The play and novel were also inspiration for an earlier film adaptation called A Free Soul (1931).^[4]

Plot

Steve Latimer (William Powell) is a successful defense attorney who has tried to give his daughter Jean (Elizabeth Taylor) everything he can in life. She decides to leave her boyfriend, the amiable Vance Court (Gig Young), for Victor Ramondi (Fernando Lamas), a rakish and dangerous man with underworld connections whom Steve is representing. Steve tries to warn Jean away from Victor, but she accepts his proposal of marriage.

Principal cast

Actor	Role
Elizabeth Taylor	Jean Latimer
Fernando Lamas	Victor Y. Raimondi
William Powell	Steve Latimer
Gig Young	Vance Court
James Whitmore	Charles "Chico" Menlow
William Walker	Julian

Reception

According to MGM records the film made $739,000 in the US and Canada and $479,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $116,000.^[1]

References

1 2 3 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .
↑ 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1953', Variety, January 13, 1954
↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045816/trivia
↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021885/trivia

External links

Films directed by Richard Thorpe

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