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Icons of Screwball Comedy. Volume One.

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Too many husbands is based on the play by W. Somerset Maugham.
My sister Eileen is based upon the play by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov ; adapted from the stories by Ruth McKenney and produced on the stage by Max Gordon.
Videorecordings of films originally released 1935-1945.
Special features: Disc 1: 1946 short film "Ain't love cuckoo;" original theatrical trailers. Disc 2: Original theatrical trailers.
Disc 1: If you could only cook / story by F. Hugh Herbert ; screenplay by Howard J. Green and Gertrude Purcell ; directed by William A. Seiter ; (1935) -- Wesley Ruggles' Too many husbands / screenplay by Claude Binyon ; directed by Wesley Ruggles ; (1940).
Disc 2: My sister Eileen / produced by Max Gordon ; screenplay by Joseph Fields & Jerome Chodorov ; directed by Alexander Hall ; (1942) -- She wouldn't say yes / produced by Virginia Van Upp ; story by Laszlo Gorog and William Thiele ; screenplay by Virginia Van Upp & John Jacoby & Sarett Tobias ; directed by Alexander Hall ; (1945).
If you could only cook cast: Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo.
Too many husbands cast: Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas, Harry Davenport, Dorothy Peterson, Melville Cooper.
My sister Eileen cast: Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair, George Tobias, Allyn Joslyn.
She wouldn't say yes cast: Rosalind Russell, Lee Bowman, Adele Jergens, Charles Winninger.
Disc 1: If you could only cook: A down-on-her-luck cook charms a millionaire into playing along as her husband so they can get work. Too many husbands: A girl finds herself legally wed to two men.
Disc 2: My sister Eileen: A sister, who has a pretty, younger sister, brings a host of eccentrics through their Greenwich Village apartment. She wouldn't say yes: A button-down psychiatrist battles her patient's impulses while suppressing her own.
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1); Dolby Digital.
Contents: My sister Eileen.

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LANGUAGE OPTIONS
Closed-captioned.

PUBLISHED
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2009]
Year Published: 2009
Description: 2 videodiscs (ca. 336 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1435952928
9781435952928

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Marshall, Herbert, 1890-1966.
Arthur, Jean, 1905-1991.
Carrillo, Leo.
MacMurray, Fred, 1908-1991.
Douglas, Melvyn.
Davenport, Harry, 1866-1949.
Peterson, Dorothy, 1897-1979.
Cooper, Melville, 1896-1973.
Russell, Rosalind.
Aherne, Brian.
Blair, Janet.
Tobias, George, 1901-1980.
Joslyn, Allyn, d. 1981.
Bowman, Lee.
Jergens, Adele, 1917-2002.
Winninger, Charles, 1884-1969.
Maugham, W. Somerset 1874-1965.
Fields, Joseph A., 1895-1966.
Chodorov, Jerome.
McKenney, Ruth, 1911-1972.
Gordon, Max, 1892-1978.
Herbert, F. Hugh 1897-1952.
Green, Howard J., 1893-1965.
Purcell, Gertrude.
Seiter, William A., 1892-1964.
Binyon, Claude, 1905-1978.
Ruggles, Wesley, 1889-1972.
Hall, Alexander, 1894-1968.
Görög, László, 1903-1997.
Thiele, Wilhelm, 1890-1975.
Van Upp, Virginia.
Jacoby, John.
Tobias, Sarett.
Columbia Pictures.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

SUBJECTS
Women cooks -- Drama.
Millionaires -- Drama.
Married women -- Drama.
Polygamy -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Sisters -- New York -- Drama.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- New York -- Drama.
Women psychiatrists -- Drama.
Impulse -- Drama.
Screwball comedy films.
Romantic comedy films.
Comedy films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Short films.