Thanks for the Memory (1938)

Director
George Archainbaud

Main cast
Bob Hope; Shirley Ross; Charles Butterworth; Otto Kruger; Hedda Hopper

Genres
Comedy

Description
Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.


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