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If You Could Only Cook (1936)

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13:00-14:25 Tue 21st Apr 2009 85m
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Synopsis

Here's a real find, a complete justification for throwing open the vaults and screening everything. Somewhere between directing Astaire and Rogers in Roberta and a slew of Shirley Temple and Deanna Durbin vehicles, William A Seiter fashioned this screwball gem, with Herbert Marshall and delectable, bell-voiced Jean Arthur posing as butler and cook in a mobster's house. Also on hand is gravel-throated Lionel Stander. The movie opened in London bearing the fraudulent legend "A Frank Capra Production" on the advertising. Bill Seiter's reaction to this ploy is unrecorded, but Capra was furious, and persuaded studio boss Harry Cohn to buy him the Broadway hit You Can't Take It with You in lieu of settlement.