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RKO Radio Pictures presents

You Can't Fool Your Wife

directed by Ray McCarey

“IS SHE SWEETHEART-OR JUST PLAIN WIFE?”

19401h 8mNRComedy

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RKO Radio Pictures presents

You Can't Fool Your Wife

directed by Ray McCarey

“IS SHE SWEETHEART-OR JUST PLAIN WIFE?”

19401h 8mNRComedy

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§ Synopsis

Comedy

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

§ Keywords

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mistaken identity b movie conflict with in-law

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§ Cast

8 of 24

Lucille Ball

as Clara Fields Hinklin

James Ellison

as Andrew Hinklin

Robert Coote

William Halligan

William Halligan

as J.R. Gillespie, Sr.

Emma Dunn

as Mother Fields

Virginia Vale

Rosina Galli

as Mama Brentoni

Charles Lane

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