One Way to Love (1946)

Director
Ray Enright

Main cast
Willard Parker; Marguerite Chapman; Chester Morris; Janis Carter; Hugh Herbert

Genres
Comedy

Description
A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and the other must write commercial jingles.


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