Jean Arthur Comedy Triple Feature

If You Could Only Cook (1935)

A chance park bench meeting between wealthy but unhappy auto magnate Jim Buchanan (Herbert Marshall) and unemployed Joan Hawthorne (Jean Arthur) leads them to answer a classified ad posted by mobster Mike Rossini (Leo Carrillo), who’s looking for a married pair of house servants. Buchanan shines thanks to tips from his own butler, but what happens when Joan’s a disaster in the kitchen? Lionel Stander, Frieda Inescort co-star. 72 min. BW/Rtg: NR

The Whole Town's Talking (1935)

Notorious but in-hiding mobster Killer Manion (Edward G. Robinson) gets tipped to the existence of Arthur Ferguson Jones (Robinson, again), a meek hardware company clerk who's his spitting image. The cunning crook starts exploiting the docile doppelganger as an alibi, but how soon will the charade fall apart? John Ford's fast-paced crime comedy co-stars Jean Arthur, Wallace Ford, Donald Meek, Edward Brophy. 93 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Too Many Husbands (1940)

After believing husband Bill (Fred MacMurray) to have disappeared at sea, Vicky Cardew (Jean Arthur) finds new happiness by marrying old friend Henry Lowndes (Melvyn Douglas). Things get dicey after Bill is rescued from his island stranding-and Vicky, mindful of having been neglected by both men, milks the rivalry for all it’s worth. Sharp adaptation of the Somerset Maugham play co-stars Harry Davenport, Melville Cooper, Edgar Buchanan. 81 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.