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You Can't Fool Your Wife

1940 · Ray McCarey · 68 min

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IS SHE SWEETHEART-OR JUST PLAIN WIFE?

Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.

Lucille BallClara Fields Hinklin

James EllisonAndrew Hinklin

Robert CooteBattincourt

William HalliganJ.R. Gillespie, Sr.

Emma DunnMother Fields

Virginia ValeSally

Rosina GalliMama Brentoni

Charles LaneSalesman

Oscar O'SheaDr. Emery NNorman MayesPorter at Dock

Patsy O'ByrneHotel Maid

Charlie HallRitz Amsterdam Bellboy

Dell HendersonRitz Amsterdam Manager

Minerva UrecalMrs. Doolittle

Leo ClearyMr. Doolittle

Cast

Lucille BallClara Fields Hinklin

James EllisonAndrew Hinklin

Robert CooteBattincourt

William HalliganJ.R. Gillespie, Sr.

Emma DunnMother Fields

Virginia ValeSally

Rosina GalliMama Brentoni

Charles LaneSalesman

Oscar O'SheaDr. Emery NNorman MayesPorter at Dock

Patsy O'ByrneHotel Maid

Charlie HallRitz Amsterdam Bellboy

Dell HendersonRitz Amsterdam Manager

Minerva UrecalMrs. Doolittle

Leo ClearyMr. Doolittle

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