You Belong to Me
Cast & Crew
Alfred Werker
Lee Tracy
Helen Mack
Helen Morgan
David Jack Holt
Arthur Pierson
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
When vaudeville performer Florette Faxon is left penniless with her six-year-old son Jimmy, she relies on the friendship of fellow performer Bud Hannigan to help her get a job. Bud is reluctant to become her partner, as he has proven to himself to be unreliable in relationships, but he tells her to call him whenever she needs help. While working in a beer garden, Florette meets Hap Stanley, an avaricious performer who marries her to get the rights to perform her show routine. Hap dislikes Jimmy and eventually convinces Florette to send him away to school. Both Jimmy and Florette are broken-up over being apart, but Jimmy pretends it is what he wants so Florette can be happy with Hap. Jimmy is miserable at the B.B. Military Academy, especially as there is no one with whom he can talk about show business. One night, immediately before a show, Hap tells Florette he is splitting up with her. Florette is completely brokenhearted, and during a romantic number in which she is sent sailing over the audience on a swing, she falls to her death. Hap barely manages to conceal his indifference to her death and adamantly refuses to take responsibility for her son. Bud steps in and after promising to take care of Jimmy, travels to give him the bad news on parents' day at the school. Bud finds Jimmy talking to singing star Bonnie Kay, who has come to perform at the school as a special favor. Jimmy discovers that Bonnie, and Bud, both of whom he admires, are married. Bud is unable to tell Jimmy the truth about his mother and instead says she has been booked on a lengthy European tour. Jimmy is happy for her, but begins to cry at the thought of being left alone at the academy. Bonnie realizes that Bud left her years earlier because he was afraid that his selfishness and drinking would ruin her, and she and Bud reconcile and promise Jimmy that they plan to take him away from the school with them.
Director
Alfred Werker
Cast
Lee Tracy
Helen Mack
Helen Morgan
David Jack Holt
Arthur Pierson
Lynne Overman
Dean Jagger
Edwin Stanley
Irene Ware
Lou Cass
Max Mack
Mary Owen
Reverend Neal Dodd
Irving Bacon
Hugh Mccormick
Allen Fox
Eddie Borden
Willie Fung
Jerry Tucker
Wally Albright Jr.
Bernard Suss
Frank Rice
Margaret Daggett
Al Shaw
Billy Bletcher
Clara Lou Sheridan
Gwenllian Gill
Sam Lee
Charles Dorety
Harry Depp
Al Gordon
Lulu Beeson
Sam Rice
Tom Plank
Earle Foxe
Crew
Emanuel Cohen
Sam Coslow
Walter De Leon
Hans Dreier
Lewis Foster
Doane Harrison
Junior Herschfeld
Grover Jones
Louis D. Lighton
William Lipman
William Slavens Mcnutt
Harry D. Mills
Leo Robin
Harry Ruskin
Lynn Starling
George Templeton
Leo Tover
Robert Usher
Adolph Zukor
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
The working title of the film was Honor Bright. The pressbook noted that Dickie Moore was originally cast as "Jimmy," but he was replaced by David Holt due to illness. The pressbook also provides the following information: LeRoy Prinz coached Helen Mack on her dance routine and Pauline Loretta, supervised by circus performer Gregory Novikoff, appeared on the overhead swing. Some scenes were filmed on location at the Black-Foxe Military Institute in Hollywood, and at the Mason Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.
