You Can't Fool Your Wife(1940)
IS SHE SWEETHEART-OR JUST PLAIN 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.
Movie: You Can't Fool Your Wife
Top 10 Billed Cast
Clara Fields Hinklin
Andrew Hinklin
Battincourt
J.R. Gillespie, Sr.
Mother Fields
Sally
Mama Brentoni
Salesman
Dr. Emery
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Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
Release Date
1940-05-21
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IS SHE SWEETHEART-OR JUST PLAIN WIFE?
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