Movie

You Can't Fool Your Wife

Released: May 21, 1940 (1940)

Runtime: 68 minutes

Genres: Comedy

Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.

Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)

Emma Dunn as Mother Fields
Age at release: 66
Oscar O'Shea as Dr. Emery
Age at release: 58
William Halligan as J.R. Gillespie, Sr.
Age at release: 57
Norman Mayes as Porter at Dock
Age at release: 37
Charles Lane as Salesman
Age at release: 35
Rosina Galli as Mama Brentoni
Age at release: 33
Robert Coote as Battincourt
Age at release: 31
James Ellison as Andrew Hinklin
Age at release: 30
Lucille Ball as Clara Fields Hinklin
Age at release: 28
Virginia Vale as Sally
Age at release: 20

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Dell Henderson as Ritz Amsterdam Manager
Age at release: 62
Harrison Greene as Sullivan
Age at release: 56
Patsy O'Byrne as Hotel Maid
Age at release: 55
Hobart Cavanaugh as Potts
Age at release: 53
Walter Fenner as Walker
Age at release: 53
Mike Tellegen as Henchman (uncredited)
Age at release: 47
Irving Bacon as Lippincott
Age at release: 46
Minerva Urecal as Mrs. Doolittle
Age at release: 45
Leo Cleary as Mr. Doolittle
Age at release: 45
Charlie Hall as Ritz Amsterdam Bellboy
Age at release: 40
Max Wagner as Burglar
Age at release: 38
Ronald R. Rondell as Battincourt's Friend at Party (uncredited)
Age at release: 36
Walter Sande as Mr. Gillespie, Jr.
Age at release: 33
Elaine Shepard as Peggy
Age at release: 27