Too Many Wives
| Too Many Wives | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ben Holmes |
| Written by | Dorothy Yost John Grey |
| Starring | Anne Shirley Barbara Pepper |
| Cinematography | Nicholas Musuraca |
| Edited by | Desmond Marquette |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 70 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $105,000[1] |
| Box office | $122,000[1] |
Too Many Wives is a 1937 comedy film directed by Ben Holmes and starring Anne Shirley. 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
- Margaret Armstrong as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
- Arthur Aylesworth as Harper (uncredited)
- Monte Collins as Herman (uncredited)
- Eddie Gribbon as Owner of Oscar's Diner (uncredited)
- Bud Jamison as Edmund (uncredited)
- Si Jenks as Man on Bicycle (uncredited)
- Kenner G. Kemp as Passerby (uncredited)
References[]
External links[]
- Too Many Wives at TCMDB
- Too Many Wives at IMDb
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- 1937 films
- English-language films
- American films
- 1937 comedy films
- American comedy films
- American black-and-white films
- Films directed by Ben Holmes
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