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Meet the Missus (1937 film)

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| director = Joseph Santley
Eddie Donahue

| producer = Albert Lewis

| writer =

| screenplay = Jack Townley
Bert Granet
Joel Sayre

| story = Jack Goodman
Albert Rice

| based_on =

| starring = Victor Moore
Helen Broderick
Anne Shirley

| narrator =

| music = Roy Webb

| cinematography = Jack MacKenzie

| editing = Frederic Knudtson

| studio = RKO Radio Pictures

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| runtime = 65 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

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'Meet the Missus' is a 1937 American domestic comedy film directed by Joseph Santley, using a screenplay by Jack Townley, Bert Granet, and Joel Sayre, based on an original story by Jack Goodman and Albert Rice.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19370626&id=NVBQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SQ0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4737,4740227&hl=en Herzog, "Buck". "The New Films; 'Another Dawn' and 'Meet the Missus' at Warner; 'Circus Girl' at Riverside" ('Milwaukee Sentinel', June 26, 1937)] The movie was produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, and was initially released on June 4, 1937.[http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/archive_image.php?id=10524553 press kit containing reproductions of posts and lobby cards for 'Meet the Missus'] The film stars Victor Moore and Helen Broderick (in the fifth of their six 193638 films) as well as Anne Shirley.

Plot



Mrs. Foster loves to enter contests which she never wins. Mr. Foster is exasperated with his wife. The Happy Noodle Company is looking for Mrs. America and Emma Foster becomes a finalist. The couple go to Atlantic City for the finals. Emma never had time to do homemaker chores and during the contest she has to get her husband Otis to do the work. Other husbands were likewise frustrated with the contest and their wives. The wives went full force to out do the other finalists.

Cast



*Victor Moore as Otis Foster - Husband

*Helen Broderick as Emma Foster - Wife

*Anne Shirley as Louise Foster - Daughter

*Alan Bruce as Steve Walton

*Edward H. Robins as Gordon H. Cutting

*William Brisbane as Prentiss

*Frank M. Thomas as Barney Lott

*Ray Mayer as John White

*Ada Leonard as Princess Zarina - Stripper

*George Irving as District Attorney

*Alec Craig as College President

*Willie Best as Mose - Shoe Shine Boy

*Virginia Sale as Mrs. Moseby - Emma's Maid

*Jack Norton as Mr. Norton aka Mr. Cotton Belt

References




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