You Can't Fool Your Wife

You Can't Fool Your Wife

68 mins | Comedy | May 21, 1940

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

68 mins | Comedy | May 21, 1940

You Can't Fool Your Wife
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
IMDb rating 5.6
Producers RKO Radio Pictures
Original title You Can't Fool Your Wife
Directors Ray McCarey
Writers Jerome Cady, Richard Carroll, Ray McCarey

Cast

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

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

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)

Mike Tellegen

as Henchman (uncredited)