Just for You (1952 film)

Just for You is a 1952 American musical film starring Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman and the final motion picture to be directed by Elliott Nugent.

[3] Widower Jordan Blake (Bing Crosby) is a successful Broadway producer and songwriter, but he has been neglecting his teenaged children, Jerry (Robert Arthur) and Barbara (Natalie Wood).

In rehearsal with star and girlfriend Carolina Hill (Jane Wyman), he keeps Jerry waiting, then dismisses a song his son has written as trite.

Then when daughter Barbara ends up in night court with her governess, who has been arrested for a drunken disagreement with a police officer, Jordan realizes he needs to spend more time with his kids.

Elliott Nugent's staging and pacing is as rigid and uninspired as the stiff and conventional plotting in Mr. Carson's script.

"[4] Variety was much happier with it at the New York preview, saying that "Just for You, a Bing Crosby–Jane Wyman musical which Paramount has set for national release in September, should prove a stout factor in bringing back that 'lost audience.'

With such basic ingredients, the picture will not only satisfy the 'under 35' trade but will recapture some of the older public who have temporarily lost the film-going habit ... With fine material to work with, Crosby socks across one of his best portrayals.