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He Couldn't Say No
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He Couldn't Say No

Mar 19, 1938
0h 57m
★ 5.5

HE GAMBLED ON LIFE...and won first prize in a love sweepstakes

Overview

A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.

Genres

Crime
Adventure
Comedy

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Frank McHugh

Lambert T. Hunkins

Frank McHugh

Jane Wyman

Violet Coney

Jane Wyman

Cora Witherspoon

Mrs. Coney

Cora Witherspoon

Diana Lewis

Iris Mabby

Diana Lewis

Berton Churchill

Senator Mabby

Berton Churchill

Chester Clute

Musgrave

Chester Clute

William Haade

Slug

William Haade

Tom Kennedy

Dimples

Tom Kennedy

Raymond Hatton

Hymie Atlas

Raymond Hatton

John Ridgely

Man-On-The-Street Reporter

John Ridgely

Cliff Clark

Auctioneer

Cliff Clark

Rita Gould

Julia Becker, the Sculptor

Rita Gould