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You Can't Fool Your Wife(1940)

NRMay 21, 19401h 8m

55%User score 55 percent

User Score

6 votes

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.

Director: Ray McCarey
Writers: Ray McCarey, Richard Carroll, Jerome Cady

Top Billed Cast

Lucille Ball
Clara Fields Hinklin
James Ellison
Andrew Hinklin
Robert Coote
Battincourt
William Halligan
J.R. Gillespie, Sr.

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Status: Released
Original title: You Can't Fool Your Wife
Original language: English
Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Keywords

mistaken identity
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conflict with in-law