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A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.
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81 min
1941-10-16
Released
English
3
5.8
Randolph Haven
Norma Haven
Professor Milic
Eric Santley
Johnny Brannigan
Cookie Farrar
Sleeper
Hudkins
Mother on Train (uncredited)
Devlin (as Douglass Newland) (uncredited)
Margaret John (uncredited)
Sales Clerk at Lacey's Dept. Store (uncredited)
Hillary (uncredited)
Marie (uncredited)
Marie's Husband (uncredited)
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