Too Many Wives
1937 film by Ben Holmes
- April 9, 1937 (1937-04-09)
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Too Many Wives is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Ben Holmes and starring Anne Shirley, Gene Lockhart and Barbara Pepper. Produced and distributed by RKO Pictures, it lost $35,000.[1]
Plot
To gain a job as a newspaper reporter, desperate dog walker Barry Trent lies that he is married with children and needs the employment badly. When he begins dating Betty Jackson, his lies come back to bite him, including when her high-society suitor Clabby pays a woman named Angela a thousand dollars to lie that she is Barry's wife.
A robbery of a valuable stamp is a further complication, but Barry solves the crime (a dog has the stamp) and then races to city hall to stop Betty from marrying Clabby.
Cast
- Anne Shirley as Betty
- John Morley as Barry
- Gene Lockhart as Winfield
- Barbara Pepper as Angela
- Frank Melton as Clabby
- Charles Coleman as Rogers
- Dot Farley as Mrs. Potts
- Jack Carson as Hodges
- George Irving as Justice A.K. Otto
- Arthur Aylesworth as Harper (uncredited)
- Monte Collins as Herman (uncredited)
- Eddie Gribbon as Owner of Oscar's Diner (uncredited)
- Bud Jamison as Edmund (uncredited)
Dudley Clements as Publisher and editor, Mansfield
References
- ^ a b c Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p57
External links
- Too Many Wives at TCMDB
- Too Many Wives at IMDb
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