If You Could Only Cook

If You Could Only Cook

SHE GAVE UP HER PARK BENCH FOR HIM! HE GAVE UP MILLIONS FOR HER!

NR 1935 · 72 min · ★ 7.4 · Comedy, Romance, Crime

An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.

Directed by William A. Seiter · Written by Gertrude Purcell

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