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.

Plot

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.

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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.

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Cast

References

External links

Too Many Wives at TCMDB

1937 films

1937 comedy films

American comedy films

American black-and-white films

Films directed by Ben Holmes

1930s American films

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