If You Could Only Cook

1935
U
1h 12m

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Jean Arthur, Herbert Marshall, and Moje Åslund in If You Could Only Cook (1935)

An executive lets an attractive cook talk him into taking a job as butler.An executive lets an attractive cook talk him into taking a job as butler.An executive lets an attractive cook talk him into taking a job as butler.

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Herbert Marshall

Jim Buchanan

Jean Arthur

Joan Hawthorne

Leo Carrillo

Mike Rossini

Lionel Stander

Flash

Alan Edwards

Bob Reynolds

Frieda Inescort

Evelyn Fletcher
(as Frieda Inescourt)

Gene Morgan

Ralf Harolde

Swig

Matt McHugh

Pete

Richard Powell

Chesty

Mariska Aldrich

Swedish Cook
(uncredited)

William Anderson

Newsboy
(uncredited)

John Ardell

Member of Board of Directors
(uncredited)

William Arnold

Second Inspector
(uncredited)

William Begg

Wedding Guest
(uncredited)

Wyrley Birch

Minister
(uncredited)

Joan Blair

Kate
(uncredited)

Ralph Brooks

Wedding Guest
(uncredited)

Director
- William A. Seiter
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10/10

Charming B&W comedy with WiseGuys

The Austin Film Society showed this entertaining old film last week on election night. The receptive audience found laughs in many lines that still seem current, especially about unemployment, the want ads and being broke.

Jean Arthur looked lovely in this movie, and Herbert Marshall was perfect. What a wonderful voice that man had! My husband thinks that his walk may have inspired C3PO's formal motions, although the robot had a metal leg, not a wooden one like Mr. Marshall's.

Lionel Stander was already in full bellow, many decades before 'Hart to Hart', and Leo Carillo was a treat as the gangster employer. It was a surprise to hear them use the term 'wise guy' for a prospective member - I didn't realize it was already being used back then.

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Trivia
In order to cash in on Frank Capra's popularity in England, Columbia Pictures released this film in London as "A Frank Capra Production, produced by Frank Capra." Capra, who had never even seen the film, was furious. This led to a bitter year-long dispute between head of Columbia Harry Cohn and Capra, who sued the studio for libel. It almost cost Cohn his job and almost resulted in Capra leaving the studio. It was resolved when Cohn relented and promised to buy for Capra the rights to the play "You Can't Take It with You" for $200,000, and pay him some back salary if he would drop the suit. Capra did.

Goofs
When Rossini pulls up to tell his gang the hit is off, a reflection of the boom microphone is visible on the trunk of his car, lower right of the frame.

Quotes
Mike Rossini: Well, how a nice girl like you happened to get hooked up with a mug like that?
Joan Hawthorne: He isn't a mug.
Mike Rossini: Well, how he happen to sell you that bill of goods? How you happen to fall for him?
Joan Hawthorne: The Depression.

Connections
Featured in The Lady with the Torch (1999)

Soundtracks
Bridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride)
(uncredited)
from "Lohengrin"
Written by Richard Wagner
[Played on piano by Walter Byron at the wedding rehearsal, reprised by the band at the wedding]