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Men Are Such Fools (1938)
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Faith Baldwin (novel)
Norman Reilly Raine (screenplay) ...
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16 July 1938 (USA) more
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Linda Lawrence rises from secretary to account executive in an advertising agency. She falls in love with ex-football star Jimmy Hall and marries him... more | add synopsis
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A Busby Berkeley B more (4 total)
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Wayne Morris | ... | James 'Jimmy' Hall |
| Priscilla Lane | ... | Linda Lawrence Hall |
 | Humphrey Bogart | ... | Harry Galleon |
 | Hugh Herbert | ... | Harvey C. Bates |
| Johnnie Davis | ... | Tad Turkel |
| Penny Singleton | ... | Nancy Crowel Turkel |
| Mona Barrie | ... | Miss Beatrice 'Bea' Harris |
| Marcia Ralston | ... | Wanda Townsend |
 | Gene Lockhart | ... | Bill Dalton |
| Kathleen Lockhart | ... | Mrs. Dalton |
| Donald Briggs | ... | George Onslow |
| Nedda Harrigan | ... | Mrs. Gertrude Nelson |
| Eric Stanley | ... | Mr. Nelson |
| Claud Allister | ... | Rudolf, Bates' Butler (as Claude Allister) |
| Renie Riano | ... | Mrs. 'Pinky' Pinkel, the Landlady |
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69 min
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USA:Approved (PCA #4036)
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Linda Lawrence Hall:
[told by Jimmy that he's just been on the phone with her Aunt Minnie] My Aunt Minnie has been dead for five years.
James 'Jimmy' Hall:
She didn't say where she was calling from!
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I'll String Along with You more
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Men Are Such Fools is one of a handful of B pictures that Busby Berkeley directed between his musical extravaganzas. I guess Jack Warner was operating on the theory that if Berkeley was on salary, he'd earn his money one way or another.
It's a B picture comedy vaguely reminiscent of the Rock Hudson-Doris Day films a generation later. The leads are Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane. He's a former star football player, she's a working girl in the advertising game. Priscilla was cute and homespun and was great in stuff like Four Daughters. Here she's all right, nothing more, ditto Morris.
THIRD billed in this film is Humphrey Bogart and ironically until he started getting gangster parts, these were the kind of roles he played on Broadway, sophisticated comedies. Bogey shouldn't have tried going back to his roots. His is the kind of role a generation later would have been played by Gig Young or Tony Randall.
Nothing spectacular here, it didn't harm the careers of Bogart or Berkeley, but it didn't help either.