He Couldn't Say No
HE GAMBLED ON LIFE...and won first prize in a love sweepstakes
1938 · 57m · Passed
Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Directed by
Lewis Seiler
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He Couldn't Say No
Overview
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.
Director and cast
- Lewis Seiler Director
- Frank McHugh as Lambert T. Hunkins
- Jane Wyman as Violet Coney
- Cora Witherspoon as Mrs. Coney
- Diana Lewis as Iris Mabby
- Berton Churchill as Senator Mabby
- Ferris Taylor as Oxnard O. Parsons
- Chester Clute as Musgrave
- William Haade as Slug
- Tom Kennedy as Dimples
- Raymond Hatton as Hymie Atlas
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