You Can't Fool Your Wife

4.5
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 68 min
  • Premiere: 1940. May 21.

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

Discover

Lucille Ball

Clara Fields Hinklin

James Ellison

Andrew Hinklin

Robert Coote

Battincourt

William Halligan

J.R. Gillespie, Sr.

Emma Dunn

Mother Fields

Rosina Galli

Mama Brentoni

Charles Lane

Salesman

Oscar O'Shea

Dr. Emery

Norman Mayes

Porter at Dock

Patsy O'Byrne

Hotel Maid

Charlie Hall

Ritz Amsterdam Bellboy

Dell Henderson

Ritz Amsterdam Manager

Minerva Urecal

Mrs. Doolittle

Leo Cleary

Mr. Doolittle

Max Wagner

Burglar

Walter Sande

Mr. Gillespie, Jr.

Irving Bacon

Lippincott

Ronald R. Rondell

Battincourt's Friend at Party (uncredited)

Mike Tellegen

Henchman (uncredited)

Art

Carroll Clark

Assistant Art Director

Van Nest Polglase

Art Direction

Camera

J. Roy Hunt

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Edward Stevenson

Costume Design

Directing

Ray McCarey

Director

Editing

Production

Lee S. Marcus

Executive Producer

Cliff Reid

Producer

Sound

Hugh McDowell Jr.

Sound Recordist

Roy Webb

Original Music Composer

Writing

Jerome Cady

Screenplay

Art

Carroll Clark

Assistant Art Director

Van Nest Polglase

Art Direction

Camera

J. Roy Hunt

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Edward Stevenson

Costume Design

Directing

Ray McCarey

Director

Editing

Production

Lee S. Marcus

Executive Producer

Cliff Reid

Producer

Sound

Hugh McDowell Jr.

Sound Recordist

Roy Webb

Original Music Composer

Writing

Jerome Cady

Screenplay