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If You Could Only Cook (1935) is a screwball comedy of mistaken identity starring Herbert Marshall as a frustrated automobile executive and Jean Arthur as a young woman who talks him into posing as her husband so they can land jobs as a butler and a cook.
In the screwball comedy If You Could Only Cook (1935), unemployed Jean Arthur happens to meet Herbert Marshall on a park bench. Assuming that he needs work, too, she asks him to pose with her as husband-and-wife so they can get jobs as a married cook-and-butler team at the mansion of a mobster (Leo Carrillo).
- William A. Seiter, Cliff Broughton
- Herbert Marshall
If You Could Only Cook (1935) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Nov 15, 2018 · Herbert Marshall & Jean Arthur in "If You Could Only Cook". Like Iodine. 393 subscribers. Subscribed. 56. 7K views 5 years ago.
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If Only You Could Cook is a spry enough comedy with plenty of charm supplied by Herbert Marshall and Jean Arthur ably supported by the abrasive comic turns of mobsters Leo Carrillo and especially Lionel Stander who threatens to steal the picture.
Frustrated by his board of directors' refusal to approve a radical new design, car company executive Jim (Herbert Marshall) strikes up a conversation with homeless Joan...
- Romance, Comedy
If You Could Only Cook (1935) Directed by William A. Seiter. While relaxing on holiday, automobile mogul Jim Buchanan (Marshall) chances upon Joan Hawthorne (Arthur), who is looking for a job and wrongly assumes he is too. Following a whim, he joins her in applying as man-and-wife for a maid-and-butler position in the home of a former bootlegger.
