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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man Overview:

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) was a Comedy - Black-and-white Film directed by George Marshall and Edward F. Cline (uncredited) and produced by Lester Cowan.

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Larson E. Whipsnade: You know, getting married is like buying a new horse... going into a strange saloon...
Edgar Bergen: I've got a good mind to...
Charlie McCarthy: Why don't you use it?
Whipsnade: I was one-time champion of the Tri-state league and the Lesser Antilles. Didn't know one card from the other when I started... but I stayed up at night marking with a pen.
Phineas Whipsnade: You give me a pain in the neck. There's a guy that's gonna get a pile of dough the day he gets married and he's just beggin; you to take it.
Victoria Whipsnade : Well, I'm not interested!
Phineas Whipsnade: Oh! One sister and she has to be a half wit!
Larson E. Whipsnade: Never trust a ventriloquist or a barber.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man Facts
W.C. Fields and Edgar Bergen were paid $100,000 each. Fields was paid an additional $25,000 for writing the script.
The certificate number on-screen is misprinted as 50101. The actual number as issued by the Production Code Administration (and on file in Hollywood, California) is 5101.
Legend has it that on the set of You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, a stagehand was cleaning out W.C. Fields' dressing room and accidentally bumped into a table on which Fields had placed a bottle of whiskey. He caught the bottle before it hit the floor, but the cork had popped out and he couldn't find it. He placed the bottle back on the table and left. Later Fields came back to the dressing room, and a few minutes after-wards stormed out, roaring "Who took the cork out of my lunch?"
There are two different cast lists in this movie, both with character names. IMDb uses the list in the opening credits because it is more complete: the end credits omit Mortimer Snerd. The only other difference places Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson last in the end credits, with the character name of "Cheerful" instead of "Rochester."
W.C. Fields became a big hit on radio, especially on Edgar Bergen's radio program, where he had a long-running "feud" with Charlie McCarthy. This film was an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of that feud by having it carried on in a movie.
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