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If You Could Only Cook is a american film of genre Comedy directed by William A. Seiter released in USA on 30 december 1935 with Herbert Marshall

If You Could Only Cook (1935)

If You Could Only Cook
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Released in USA 30 december 1935
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Romantic comedy,    Romance
Rating69% 3.496313.496313.496313.496313.49631

If You Could Only Cook (1935) is a screwball comedy of mistaken identity starring Herbert Marshall as a frustrated automobile executive and Jean Arthur as a young woman who talks him into posing as her husband so they can land jobs as a butler and a cook.

Synopsis

Jim Buchanan (Marshall), wealthy president of Buchanan Motor Company, is engaged to Evelyn Fletcher (Inescort), a henpecking aristocrat who is interested in Jim for his money. When Jim's fellow executives reject his plan to introduce a new automobile design, he decides to take a vacation.

Actors

Herbert Marshall

(Jim Buchanan)Jean Arthur

(Joan Hawthorne)Leo Carrillo

(Mike Rossini)Lionel Stander

(Flash)Frieda Inescort

(Evelyn Fletcher)
And :
Gene Morgan
Ralf Harolde
Matt McHugh
Richard Powell
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