Hotel Haywire
1937 · 66 min · ★ 9.0 · Comedy
Parkhouse plays a practical joke on a poker-playing buddy by sending him home with a lady's chemise stuffed in his coat pocket. The gag backfires, whereupon Parkhouse finds himself in hot water with his own wife. Threatened with divorce, Parkhouse is advised by a zany astrologer to frame Mrs. P. in a compromising situation at the Hotel Haywire, enlisting amateur detectives Bert and Genevieve Sterns in his scheme.
Directed by George Archainbaud · Written by Preston Sturges
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Leo Carrillo Dr. Zodiac Z. Zippe -
Mary Carlisle Phyllis -
Lynne Overman Dr. Parkhouse -
George Barbier I. Ketts -
Spring Byington Mrs. Parkhouse - J John Patterson Frank Ketts
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