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Guaranteed to make America laugh..It solves the servant problem but opens up a New LAFF problem!
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.Read moreLess
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
The story
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
Cast & crew
Jack CarsonJerry Curtis
Jane WymanSusan Courtney
Irene ManningVivian Whirtle
Alan HaleWalter Whirtle
George TobiasBoris Fenilise
Robert ShayneLester Knight
Tala BirellMiss Marie Gruber
Ricardo CortezWilson / Fritz Alden
Marjorie HoshelleMiss Elsa Wehmer
Kurt KatchHerr von Ritter
Leah BairdJohn's WifeExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Edmund Joseph
- Director
- Peter Godfrey
- Screenplay
- Francis Swann
- Original Music Composer
- Heinz Roemheld
- Director of Photography
- Robert Burks
- Producer
- Alex Gottlieb
- Original Music Composer
- Frank Perkins
- Editor
- Clarence Kolster