You Can't Fool Your Wife

You Can't Fool Your Wife
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Ray McCarey
Produced by Cliff Reid
Screenplay by Jerome Cady
Based on The Romantic Mr. Hinklin
by Richard Carroll
Ray McCarey
Starring Lucille Ball
James Ellison
Robert Coote
Virginia Vale
Emma Dunn
Elaine Shepard
Music by Roy Webb
Cinematography J. Roy Hunt
Edited by Theron Warth
Production
company
Distributed by RKO Pictures
Release date
  • May 21, 1940 (1940-05-21)
Running time
 68 minutes
Country United States
Language English

You Can't Fool Your Wife is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Ray McCarey and written by Jerome Cady. The film stars Lucille Ball, James Ellison, Robert Coote, Virginia Vale, Emma Dunn and Elaine Shepard. The film was released on May 21, 1940, by RKO Pictures.[1][2][3]

Plot

Young married couple Andrew Hinklin and Clara Hinklin née Fields, who were college sweethearts, are well matched: both are unexciting and unmotivated, only wanting to carve out a plain, simple uninteresting life for themselves. Their marriage is not helped by Clara's opinionated mother living with them in their small one bedroom apartment. However, Clara does wish that their life would be a little more exciting as Andrew said on their honeymoon that their married life would be, least of all by Andrew acknowledging their latest wedding anniversary, their fifth. Clara's wish takes an unexpected turn when Andrew, at work, is assigned to show the visiting Mr. Battingcourt Jr. - the younger half of the head of their London office and who is majority shareholder of their accounting firm - a good time while he's in the US. "Batty" as he is affectionately called by his friends is a party animal, and Andrew, who Batty rechristens "Hinky", feels he has to party along all in the name of job security.

Clara feels that she is losing her stable husband Andrew to Hinky the party animal. Feeling he is partly to blame for the Hinklins' marital problems, Batty advises Clara that she can make herself more exciting to Hinky by changing her demeanor and appearance, more like Mercedes Vasquez, a beautiful and exciting woman who Clara could resemble if made up correctly. Clara agrees to Batty's plan to come to one of their parties masquerading as exotic Latina Dolores Alvaradez, to woo Hinky and thus ultimately show him that she can be exotic like he probably now wants. Complications ensue when others find out about Batty's scheme and when Mercedes Vasquez also attends that party leading to a few mistaken identities.

Cast


References

  1. ↑ "You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  2. ↑ "Movie Review - You Can t Fool Your Wife - THE SCREEN; Anna Neagle Plays the Musical 'Irene,' at the Music Hall--Light Comedy at the Palace - NYTimes.com". Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "You Can't Fool Your Wife Trailer, Reviews and Schedule for You Can't Fool Your Wife - TVGuide.com". TV Guide. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
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