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She Had to Eat poster

She Had to Eat(1937)

NRJuly 2, 19371h 14m

Adventure Comedy Crime Music Romance

56%User score 56 percent

User Score

5 votes

Overview

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.

Director: Malcolm St. Clair
Writers: James Edward Grant, Samuel G. Engel, M.M. Musselman

Top Billed Cast

Jack Haley
Danny Decker
Rochelle Hudson
Ann Garrison
Arthur Treacher
Carter
Eugene Pallette
Raymond Q. Nash

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Pete

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Rusty

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Joseph E. Bernard

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Mr. McIntire - Telegraph Clerk (uncredited)

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Status: Released
Original title: She Had to Eat
Original language: English
Production: 20th Century Fox

Keywords

kidnapping
gangster
mistaken identity
train
screwball comedy