Too Many Wives

For the British film, see Too Many Wives (1933 film).

Too Many Wives is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Ben Holmes and starring Anne Shirley, Gene Lockhart and Barbara Pepper. Produced and distributed by RKO Pictures, it lost $35,000.^[1]

Too Many Wives
Directed by	Ben Holmes
Written by	Dorothy Yost Lois Eby John Grey
Produced by	William Sistrom
Starring	Anne Shirley Gene Lockhart Barbara Pepper
Cinematography	Nicholas Musuraca
Edited by	Desmond Marquette
Music by	Roy Webb
Production company	RKO Radio Pictures
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	April 9, 1937 (1937-04-09)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$105,000[1]
Box office	$122,000[1]

Plot

To gain a job as a newspaper reporter, desperate dog walker Barry Trent lies that he is married with children and needs the employment badly. When he begins dating Betty Jackson, his lies come back to bite him, including when her high-society suitor Clabby pays a woman named Angela a thousand dollars to lie that she is Barry's wife.

A robbery of a valuable stamp is a further complication, but Barry solves the crime (a dog has the stamp) and then races to city hall to stop Betty from marrying Clabby.

Cast

• Anne Shirley as Betty
• John Morley as Barry
• Gene Lockhart as Winfield
• Barbara Pepper as Angela
• Frank Melton as Clabby
• Charles Coleman as Rogers
• Dot Farley as Mrs. Potts
• Jack Carson as Hodges
• George Irving as Justice A.K. Otto
• Arthur Aylesworth as Harper (uncredited)
• Monte Collins as Herman (uncredited)
• Eddie Gribbon as Owner of Oscar's Diner (uncredited)
• Bud Jamison as Edmund (uncredited)

Dudley Clements as Publisher and editor, Mansfield