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Too Many Wives

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Too Many Wives
Directed byBen Holmes
Written byDorothy Yost
Lois Eby
John Grey
Produced byWilliam Sistrom
StarringAnne Shirley
Gene Lockhart
Barbara Pepper
CinematographyNicholas Musuraca
Edited byDesmond Marquette
Music byRoy Webb
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • April 9, 1937 (1937-04-09)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$105,000[1]
Box office$122,000[1]

Too Many Wives is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Ben Holmes and starring Anne Shirley, Gene Lockhart and Barbara Pepper. Produced and distributed by RKO Pictures, it lost $35,000.[1]

Plot

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To gain a job as a newspaper reporter, desperate dog walker Barry Trent lies that he is married with children and needs the employment badly. When he begins dating Betty Jackson, his lies come back to bite him, including when her high-society suitor Clabby pays a woman named Angela a thousand dollars to lie that she is Barry's wife.

A robbery of a valuable stamp is a further complication, but Barry solves the crime (a dog has the stamp) and then races to city hall to stop Betty from marrying Clabby.

Cast

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Dudley Clements as Publisher and editor, Mansfield

References

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  1. ^ a b c Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p57
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