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If You Could Only Cook (1935)

If You Could Only Cook poster
Directed by
William A. Seiter
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 12m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 19 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman convinces a man she meets to pretend to be her husband so they can get hired as a cook and a butler. They work together in a wealthy household while hiding their true identities.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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