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{{short description|1938 film by Roy William Neill, starring Max Miller}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Everything Happens to Me
| image          = Everything Happens to Me (1938 film).jpg
| caption        =
| director       = [[Roy William Neill]]
| producer       = [[Jerome Jackson (producer)|Jerome Jackson]]
| writer         = [[John Dighton]]<br>Austin Melford
| starring       = [[Max Miller (comedian)|Max Miller]]<br>[[Chili Bouchier]]<br>[[H. F. Maltby]]
| music          =[[Louis Levy]]
| cinematography = [[Basil Emmott]]
| editing        = [[Leslie Norman (director)|Leslie Norman]]
| studio         = Warner Brothers
| distributor    = [[Warner Bros.|Warner Brothers]]-[[First National Pictures|First National Productions]]
| released       = {{Film date|1938|12}}
| runtime        = 82 minutes
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
}}
'''''Everything Happens to Me''''' is a 1938 British comedy film directed by [[Roy William Neill]] and starring [[Max Miller (comedian)|Max Miller]], [[Chili Bouchier]] and [[H. F. Maltby]]. It was made at [[Teddington Studios]] by the British subsidiary of [[Warner Brothers]] The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]]s [[Peter Proud]] and [[Michael Relph]].

==Synopsis==
The film features Miller as a vacuum-cleaner salesman volunteering as an election agent to canvas on behalf of prospective candidate Arthur Gusty (Maltby). However, when he learns from nurse Sally Green (Bouchier) that Gusty is a crook who has been systematically siphoning off funds from the local orphanage into his own pocket, he withdraws his support and throws himself whole-heartedly behind the campaign of Gusty's honourable opponent Norman Prodder ([[Frederick Burtwell]]).

==Cast==
* [[Max Miller (comedian)|Max Miller]] as Charles Cromwell
* [[Chili Bouchier]] as Sally Green
* [[H. F. Maltby]] as Arthur Gusty
* [[Frederick Burtwell]] as Norman Prodder
* [[Norma Varden]] as Mrs. Prodder
* [[Allan Jeayes]] as Bill Johnson
* Winifred Izard as Mrs. Gusty
* [[Hal Walters]] as Jack

The title song and another within the film were written by [[Fred Godfrey]].

==Bibliography==
* Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
* Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0030110|Everything Happens to Me}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090114132902/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/32595 ''Everything Happens to Me''] at BFI Film & TV Database
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101013205503/http://www.maxmiller.org/films4.htm Miller's Movies] at Max Miller information site

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[[Category:1938 films]]
[[Category:1938 comedy films]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Roy William Neill]]
[[Category:British black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Films set in England]]
[[Category:Films shot at Teddington Studios]]
[[Category:Warner Bros. films]]
[[Category:1930s English-language films]]
[[Category:1930s British films]]
[[Category:English-language comedy films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Louis Levy]]


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