If You Could Only Cook
If You Could Only Cook

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Auto magnate James Buchanan has a fiancée who doesn't love him and a board of directors who won't listen to him. Brooding on a park bench, he meets unemployed Joan Hawthorne, a fine cook who needs a partner to apply for a 'couple' butler/cook job with gourmet ex-bootlegger Mike Rossini. Bemused, Buchanan goes along with the gag, taking lessons from his own butler. But there's sure to be a day of reckoning...... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in If You Could Only Cook:

Herbert Marshall
Jean Arthur
Leo Carrillo
Lionel Stander
Alan Edwards
Frieda Inescort

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Auto magnate James Buchanan has a fiancée who doesn't love him and a board of directors who won't listen to him. Brooding on a park bench, he meets unemployed Joan Hawthorne, a fine cook who needs a partner to apply for a 'couple' butler/cook job with gourmet ex-bootlegger Mike Rossini. Bemused, Buchanan goes along with the gag, taking lessons from his own butler. But there's sure to be a day of reckoning...

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User Review - 8/10 by James HA charming screwball delight. Jean Arthur is hilarious as ever and Herbert Marshall is her suave, sophisticated foil. Good fun!
User Review - 8/10 by Joel AA surprisingly charming screwball comedy about a millionaire pretending to be a butler to get closer to the woman he likes who genuinely needs to be a butler for cash. A first seemingly a silly film, the humour grows on you & you find yourself going with it. All the supporting actors in this film just work & really add to the film, but it's really Jean Arthur who steals the show she is just such a talent. A fun film, that is seldom mentioned in film lists but it is a really enjoyable film that deserves a bit of attention.
User Review - 8/10 by Chrisanne SI really enjoyed this - the very unlikely tale of a couple who meet on a park bench and decide to take up jobs as butler and cook to a pair of gangsters. It's very much of its time, and the ending was fairly predictable, but it was funny and kept me watching.
User Review - 6/10 by jay nSweet comedy with Herbert Marshall and Jean Arthur an unlikely but potent pair. It is light as air but a saucy souffle.
User Review - 6/10 by Alex SObviously a B-movie, but worthy if you're a classic screwball fan (heavy shades of My Man Godfrey, if you thought Godfrey should've run off with the maid). The silliness is carried by Jean Arthur and Herbert Marshall playing their comic personas to the hilt: Jean Arthur as the quintessential savvy yet vulnerable girl-next-door and Herbert Marshall as the elegantly charming douchebag, with all the mixed-up identities and Depression-era backdrop one requires. Could probably be fleshed out to be a more sensible and much better film, but as it is, it doesn't have an ounce of flesh to spare on its 70 minute frame.
User Review - 6/10 by Paul DWonderful harmless comedy from the mid 1930's. Marshall and Arthur stylishly play out the deception of his moonlighting in the service class and bounce off each other well.

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