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You Can't Fool Your Wife

You Can't Fool Your Wife1940

★5.568 minComedy

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

Writer

Jerome Cady Richard Carroll Ray McCarey

Score

Stars

Lucille Ball James Ellison Robert Coote

Cast24

Lucille Ball
as Clara Fields Hinklin
James Ellison
as Andrew Hinklin
Robert Coote
as Battincourt
William Halligan
as J.R. Gillespie, Sr.
Emma Dunn
as Mother Fields
Virginia Vale
as Sally
Rosina Galli
as Mama Brentoni
Charles Lane
as Salesman
Oscar O'Shea
as Dr. Emery
N
Norman Mayes
as Porter at Dock
Patsy O'Byrne
as Hotel Maid
Charlie Hall
as Ritz Amsterdam Bellboy
Dell Henderson
as Ritz Amsterdam Manager
Minerva Urecal
as Mrs. Doolittle
Leo Cleary
as Mr. Doolittle
H
Harrison Greene
as Sullivan
Max Wagner
as Burglar
Hobart Cavanaugh
as Potts
Walter Sande
as Mr. Gillespie, Jr.
Walter Fenner
as Walker
Irving Bacon
as Lippincott
Elaine Shepard
as Peggy
Ronald R. Rondell
as Battincourt's Friend at Party (uncredited)
M
Mike Tellegen
as Henchman (uncredited)

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