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Seiter</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-size: 125%; font-style: italic;">If You Could Only Cook</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:If_You_Could_Only_Cook.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/If_You_Could_Only_Cook.jpg/220px-If_You_Could_Only_Cook.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/If_You_Could_Only_Cook.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="216" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Publicity photograph: Jean Arthur's lipstick traces on Herbert Marshall (left) and Leo Carrillo</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Directed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_A._Seiter" title="William A. Seiter">William A. Seiter</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Written by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/F._Hugh_Herbert" title="F. Hugh Herbert">F. Hugh Herbert</a> (story)<br /><a href="/wiki/Howard_J._Green" title="Howard J. Green">Howard J. Green</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Gertrude_Purcell" title="Gertrude Purcell">Gertrude Purcell</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Produced by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Everett_Riskin" title="Everett Riskin">Everett Riskin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Starring</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Marshall" title="Herbert Marshall">Herbert Marshall</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Jean_Arthur" title="Jean Arthur">Jean Arthur</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Leo_Carrillo" title="Leo Carrillo">Leo Carrillo</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Cinematography</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Stumar" title="John Stumar">John Stumar</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Edited by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gene_Havlick" title="Gene Havlick">Gene Havlick</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Distributed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" title="Columbia Pictures">Columbia Pictures</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Release date</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist film-date"> <ul><li>December 30, 1935<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1935-12-30</span>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Running time</div></th><td class="infobox-data">70-72 minutes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">USA</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>If You Could Only Cook</b></i> (1935) is a <a href="/wiki/Screwball_comedy" title="Screwball comedy">screwball comedy</a> of mistaken identity starring <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Marshall" title="Herbert Marshall">Herbert Marshall</a> as a frustrated automobile executive and <a href="/wiki/Jean_Arthur" title="Jean Arthur">Jean Arthur</a> as a young woman who talks him into posing as her husband so they can land jobs as a butler and a cook. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=If_You_Could_Only_Cook&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jim Buchanan (<a href="/wiki/Herbert_Marshall" title="Herbert Marshall">Marshall</a>), wealthy president of Buchanan Motor Company, is engaged to Evelyn Fletcher (<a href="/wiki/Frieda_Inescort" title="Frieda Inescort">Inescort</a>), a bossy socialite who is interested in Jim for his money. When Jim's fellow executives reject his plan to introduce a new automobile design, he decides to take a vacation. </p><p>Declaring himself "sick and tired of everything", Jim goes for a walk in the park, where he meets a young woman named Joan Hawthorne (<a href="/wiki/Jean_Arthur" title="Jean Arthur">Arthur</a>). Joan is having trouble finding a job and has just been evicted from her apartment. Assuming he is also a job hunter, she asks Jim to pose as her husband so they can apply for a combined job opening for a butler and a cook. Without revealing his true identity, he agrees. </p><p>"Mr. and Mrs. Burns" are soon hired by Michael Rossini (<a href="/wiki/Leo_Carrillo" title="Leo Carrillo">Carrillo</a>). She is a good cook; he improves his skills by sneaking away at night and taking lessons from his own butler, Jennings (<a href="/wiki/Romaine_Callender" title="Romaine Callender">Romaine Callender</a>) . He also goes to his office and takes some of his automobile sketches from a safe to show to Joan. Impressed by his designs, on their day off she shows them to an executive with one of Buchanan's competitors, but he recognizes Buchanan's style, leading to her arrest for theft. Having fallen in love with Jim, she refuses to help the police find him. </p><p>Meanwhile, Jim has decided to tell Joan who he is. When she misses a lunch date while in jail, he writes her a letter, abandons his butler position, and returns to Evelyn and his life as a businessman. Rossini, who has just organized a <a href="/wiki/Rum-running" title="Rum-running">bootlegging</a> gang, learns of Jim's trip to the office from his assistant, Flash (<a href="/wiki/Lionel_Stander" title="Lionel Stander">Stander</a>), who is suspicious of Jim and has been tailing him. Wanting Joan for himself, he has her bailed out and tells her the truth about Jim. </p><p>She reacts by raging against Jim, so Rossini promptly orders his henchmen to kill Jim at his wedding. To ingratiate himself with Joan, he tells her about this, but she declares that she loves Jim after all and begs Rossini to spare his life. </p><p>Rossini's men abduct Jim from the wedding as he is about to take his vows, but Rossini arrives before they leave. He and his men take Jim home at gunpoint and fetch a justice of the peace to marry Jim and Joan. Joan refuses and locks herself in her room, but Jim embraces the plan. Since Rossini's men were seen kidnapping him, he blackmails the gang into persuading her to change her mind. Outside Joan's room, Rossini pretends to argue with Jim, Flash fires his gun in the air, and Jim collapses onto the floor, pretending to be hit. The deception works: Joan opens the door and rushes to his side. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cast">Cast</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=If_You_Could_Only_Cook&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cast"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Marshall" title="Herbert Marshall">Herbert Marshall</a> as Jim Buchanan/Burns</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Arthur" title="Jean Arthur">Jean Arthur</a> as Joan Hawthorne/Burns</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leo_Carrillo" title="Leo Carrillo">Leo Carrillo</a> as Mike Rossini</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Stander" title="Lionel Stander">Lionel Stander</a> as Flash, Rossini's right-hand man</li> <li>Alan Edwards as Bob Reynolds</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frieda_Inescort" title="Frieda Inescort">Frieda Inescort</a> as Evelyn Fletcher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romaine_Callender" title="Romaine Callender">Romaine Callender</a> as Jennings</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Morgan" title="Gene Morgan">Gene Morgan</a> as Al</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralf_Harolde" title="Ralf Harolde">Ralf Harolde</a> as Swig</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matt_McHugh" title="Matt McHugh">Matt McHugh</a> as Pete</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bess_Flowers" title="Bess Flowers">Bess Flowers</a> as Laura</li> <li>Richard Powell as Chesty</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lawsuit">Lawsuit</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=If_You_Could_Only_Cook&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Lawsuit"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In England, Columbia promoted the film as a <a href="/wiki/Frank_Capra" title="Frank Capra">Frank Capra</a> production. Capra, the top director at the studio—who had been feuding with studio head <a href="/wiki/Harry_Cohn" title="Harry Cohn">Harry Cohn</a> over financial and artistic issues—sued Columbia for unlawful use of his name. The parties settled, with Capra returning to the studio while getting $100,000 (the number based on a separate dispute over salary) and having one film waived from a contractual five-film obligation. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=If_You_Could_Only_Cook&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> review was mixed, stating, "the texture of the production is too uneven. It has laughs but lacks pace."<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The critic praised the performances of Marshall, Carrillo and Stander, but felt that "... Jean Arthur, a genuinely versatile player, could not quite lend the sparkle to the role of the girl which it conceivably deserved."<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Writing for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spectator" title="The Spectator">The Spectator</a></i> in 1936, <a href="/wiki/Graham_Greene" title="Graham Greene">Graham Greene</a> gave the film a negative review. Acknowledging that there were a few scenes and situations which bore "a few agreeable Capra touches", Greene complained that the film would have had "more wit if the main performance [by Marshall] had been less earnest, less conceited, [and] less humourless..."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=If_You_Could_Only_Cook&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NYT_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYT_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFM._B.1935" class="citation news cs1">M. 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(December 26, 1935). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9506E0D6173EE53ABC4E51DFB467838E629EDE">"If You Could Only Cook (1936): At the Roxy"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=If+You+Could+Only+Cook+%281936%29%3A+At+the+Roxy&rft.date=1935-12-26&rft.au=M.+B.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fmovie%2Freview%3Fres%3D9506E0D6173EE53ABC4E51DFB467838E629EDE&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIf+You+Could+Only+Cook" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGreene1936" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Graham_Greene" title="Graham Greene">Greene, Graham</a> (10 April 1936). "Liebesmelodie/Pot Luck/If You Could Only Cook/One Way Ticket". <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spectator" title="The Spectator">The Spectator</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Spectator&rft.atitle=Liebesmelodie%2FPot+Luck%2FIf+You+Could+Only+Cook%2FOne+Way+Ticket&rft.date=1936-04-10&rft.aulast=Greene&rft.aufirst=Graham&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIf+You+Could+Only+Cook" class="Z3988"></span> (reprinted in: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTaylor1980" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Russell_Taylor" title="John Russell Taylor">Taylor, John Russell</a>, ed. (1980). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/pleasuredomegrah00gree/page/65"><i>The Pleasure Dome</i></a></span>. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/pleasuredomegrah00gree/page/65">65</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0192812866" title="Special:BookSources/0192812866"><bdi>0192812866</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Pleasure+Dome&rft.pages=65&rft.date=1980&rft.isbn=0192812866&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fpleasuredomegrah00gree%2Fpage%2F65&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIf+You+Could+Only+Cook" class="Z3988"></span>)</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span 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