The Doctor Takes a Wife
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
Alexander Hall
Casts & Crew
Loretta Young
Ray Milland
Edmund Gwenn
Reginald Gardiner
Gail Patrick
Frank Sully
Gordon Jones
Georges Metaxa
Charles Halton
Joseph Eggenton
Paul McAllister
Chester Clute
Hal K. Dawson
Edward Van Sloan
Helen Ainsworth
Erville Alderson
Dorothy Appleby
Gertrude Astor
Irving Bacon
Don Beddoe
Henry Blair
Harry C. Bradley
Spencer Charters
Catherine Courtney
Dix Davis
Helen Davis
Edgar Dearing
Vernon Dent
Claire Du Brey
Edward Earle
Edward Gargan
Sumner Getchell
Wesley Giraud
Jane Goude
Olin Howland
Jane Keckley
William Lally
Charles Lane
Bobby Larson
Eddie Laughton
Ann Lee
Ian Maclaren
Myra Marsh
Frances Morris
William Newell
Frank Orth
Renie Riano
Virginia Sale
Dorothy Anne Seese
Vera Steadman
Gertrude Sutton
Emma Tansey
Carol Tevis
Charlotte Treadway
Larry Wheat
John Wray
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