Eres para mí

Slick, fast-paced unfunny romantic comedy as rich Peter Lawford and research doctor Gig Young don't exactly romance Jane Greer, but more accurately bid on her for her affections. Young seems grouchy at being in the picture, Lawford tries to get through his lines as fast as possible and Jane Greer seems to just want to leave the scene.

"You for Me" is a very problematic film. While it's clearly a rom-com, it suffers from a fatal flaw....you just can't like anyone in the story!

The story begins with an irresponsible rich guy (Peter Lawford) getting shot in the butt in a hunting accident. Because Tony Brown (Peter Lawford) is so rich and important, the hospital drops everything to treat him--calling nurses and doctors in to perform an emergency operation....not that it was exactly life saving! One of the nurses, Katie (Jane Greer), is peeved that the patient is so spoiled and she tells him off...and soon she not only finds herself out of a job but the hospital out of an endowment from Tony. So, Katie spends much of the film kissing up to that playboy in order to get money from her for the hospital. And, it's not only her...everyone seems to have their hands out to Tony and even Katie's family exploits the guy. Dr. Chadwick (Gig Young) is not amused by all this and it's obvious he's smitten with Katie...as is Tony.

Dr. Chadwick is a grouch, Katie and her family are users, Tony is an irresponsible jerk and, well, pretty much everyone you see in the film is nasty--either wanting Tony's money or acting grouchy for little reason. After a while, it felt like a chore trying to stick with this one....and it's a shame as the film does have an excellent cast. The problem is the script.

This impressively silly film starts off with a bang with playboy Peter Lawford having a hunting accident which results in his getting buckshot in his tail. Bickering doctor Gig Young and nurse Jane Greer when not verbally sparring spend most of their screen time examining Lawford's derriere. Although this viewer is willing to concede that the aforementioned part of Lawford's anatomy may very well comprise that actor's greatest charm, the charm is not so great as to serve for the main focal point of an entire film especially when it is never even glimpsed by the audience. That notably absent and undoubtedly welcome sight alone could begin to atone for enduring nearly 80 minutes of Lawford's usual obnoxious urbanity and the total waste of both Young and Greer who are brought together by the end....Lawford's end, that is.

Tony Brown (Peter Lawford) gets shot in the butt during a hunting trip. Nurse Katie McDermad (Jane Greer) and surgeon Jeff Chadwick (Gig Young) are two of his caretakers. Brown is a big money contributor to the hospital. "Do you know who I am?" Lucille Brown (Rita Corday) is his gold-digging ex-wife.

It's a thin line between love and hate. At least, that's what Hollywood likes to believe. Brown needs to be less hateful and angry at the beginning. He could get easy sympathy by playing up the pain of getting shot in the butt. It's funny and a good excuse to be angry-funny. That's what's missing from that first meet-cute. It needs to be cuter. He does slip in some good sex humor but he's also too mean at times. On the second side of triangle, Dr. Jeff is too arrogant and too straight. He needs to push harder on the humor or be much more arrogant and stiff if he plays the bad side of the triangle. Jane Greer seems to be the only one who hits the bullseye consistently. She's sly. She's sarcastic. She's able to make this work despite the a few bad notes from the other performers although I don't like her with either man. That's where the meet-cute with Brown is so important. This has the potential of a good standard rom-com but the execution is a little off.

You For Me casts Peter Lawford as a man that people seemingly think he's made of money because he has a lot of it. That's because he was left a whole lot of it by his late father from his fertilizer business. Peter has a lot of that as well. One of his father's charities was the local hospital where Gig Young toils at research when not doing surgery and Jane Greer works as a nurse, a profession she love though the pay stinks.

Lawford has need of the hospital when during a hunting trip he gets shot where his assets are at. A nice load of buckshot has him in surgery where he feels he's not getting his proper share of attention because of the money he gives them.

Of course that sets up the whole romantic triangle of this comedy with Jane Greer getting involved with both heir Lawford and Doctor Young. Guess who she winds up with?

Slight comedy from MGM's B picture unit with a few laughs. In the supporting cast note Kathryn Card as the head nurse who is not one to be trifled with, Howard Wendell who is the officious head of the hospital and butt kisser number one when he's after Lawford's money and Rita Corday who is Lawford's ex-wife and the source of some considerable cash flow problems.