Meet the Missus is a 1937 American domestic comedy film directed by Joseph Santley, using a screenplay by Jack Townley, Bert Granet, and Joel Sayre, based on an original story by Jack Goodman and Albert Rice.Herzog, "Buck". "The New Films; 'Another Dawn' and 'Meet the Missus' at Warner; 'Circus Girl' at Riverside" (Milwaukee Sentinel, June 26, 1937) The movie was produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, and was initially released on June 4, 1937.press kit containing reproductions of posts and lobby cards for Meet the Missus The film stars Victor Moore and Helen Broderick (in the fifth of their six 1936–38 films) as well as Anne Shirley.
Plot Mrs. Foster loves to enter contests which she never wins. Mr. Foster is exasperated with his wife. The Happy Noodle Company is looking for Mrs. America and Emma Foster becomes a finalist. The couple go to Atlantic City for the finals. Emma never had time to do homemaker chores and during the contest she has to get her husband Otis to do the work. Other husbands were likewise frustrated with the contest and their wives. The wives went full force to out do the other finalists.
Cast Victor Moore as Otis Foster - Husband Helen Broderick as Emma Foster - Wife Anne Shirley as Louise Foster - Daughter Alan Bruce as Steve Walton Edward H. Robins as Gordon H. Cutting William Brisbane as Prentiss Frank M. Thomas as Barney Lott Ray Mayer as John White Ada Leonard as Princess Zarina - Stripper George Irving as District Attorney Alec Craig as College President Willie Best as Mose - Shoe Shine Boy Virginia Sale as Mrs. Moseby - Emma's Maid Jack Norton as Mr. Norton aka Mr. Cotton Belt
Critical reception Variety described Meet the Missus as a "rather silly fable" but commented that the stars, Victor Moore and Helen Broderick were "often able" to lift the film "by the sheer force of their collective gifts."
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External links
Meet the Missus at TV Guide (1987 write-up was originally published in The Motion Picture Guide)