You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)

  • NR
  • 05/21/1940 (US)
  • Comedy
  • 1h 8m

IS SHE SWEETHEART-OR JUST PLAIN WIFE?

Overview

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

Ray McCarey

Director, Story

Richard Carroll

Story

Jerome Cady

Screenplay

Cast

Lucille Ball's headshot

Lucille Ball

Clara Fields Hinklin
James Ellison's headshot

James Ellison

Andrew Hinklin
Robert Coote's headshot

Robert Coote

Battincourt
William Halligan's headshot

William Halligan

J.R. Gillespie, Sr.
Emma Dunn's headshot

Emma Dunn

Mother Fields
Virginia Vale's headshot

Virginia Vale

Sally
Rosina Galli's headshot

Rosina Galli

Mama Brentoni
Charles Lane's headshot

Charles Lane

Salesman

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