You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)

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.

You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)

05/21/1940 (US) • 1h 8m

Comedy

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.

Top Billed Cast

Lucille Ball

Clara Fields Hinklin

James Ellison

Andrew Hinklin

Robert Coote

Battincourt

William Halligan

J.R. Gillespie, Sr.

Emma Dunn

Mother Fields

Virginia Vale

Sally

Rosina Galli

Mama Brentoni

Charles Lane

Salesman

Oscar O'Shea

Dr. Emery

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

mistaken identity

b movie

conflict with in-law

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