If You Could Only Cook

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.

Declaring himself sick and tired of everything, Jim goes for a walk in the park, where he meets a young woman named Joan Hawthorne Arthur. Joan is having trouble finding a job and has just been evicted from her apartment. Assuming he is also a job hunter, she asks Jim to pose as her husband so they can apply for a combined job opening for a butler and a cook. Without revealing his true identity, he agrees.Mr. and Mrs. Burns are soon hired by Michael Rossini Carrillo. She is a good cook he improves his skills by sneaking away at night and taking lessons from his own butler. He also goes to his office and takes some of his automobile sketches to show to Joan. Impressed by his designs, on their day off she shows them to an executive with one of Buchanans competitors, but he recognizes Buchanans style, leading to her arrest for theft. Having fallen in love with Jim, she refuses to help the police find him. ........

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