You're Telling Me

You're Telling Me

NR 1942 · 60 min · ★ 10.0 · Comedy

Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less eccentric aunt Fannie Handley, who is married to one of the company owners. After mixing up the script pages to the various radio programs, Hubert sets out to get the name of a returning explorer on a contract for the radio station. Other than the title, this film has no connection at all to the 1934 W.C. Fields film of the same title even though some sources give the plot of the Fields' film as the plot of this film.

Directed by Charles Lamont · Written by Brenda Weisberg

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Hugh Herbert Hubert Abercrombie Gumm
Anne Gwynne Kit Bellamy
Robert Paige Dr. Burnside 'Burnsy' Walker
Edward Ashley Fred Curtis
Ernest Truex Charles Handley
Esther Dale Aunt Fannie Handley
Eily Malyon Mrs. Appleby
Charles Smith Bill, Mimograph Operator
Helen Lynd Miss Ames
Romaine Callender J.T. Dorsett
Boyd Davis Driscoll
Vickie Lester Mrs. Adalaide Parks (as Vicki Lester)

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