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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)
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Add to a movie listIf 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.
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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)
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