So You Want To Hold Your Husband (1950)

 

So You Want To Hold Your Husband - 1950

Coming up next is 1950's "So You Want To Hold Your Husband", an entry in the Joe McDoakes series that sees his frustrated wife Alice trying to get some attention from her husband.

The film's cast includes George O'Hanlon, Phyllis Coates, and Art Gilmore.

Alice McDoakes is a little concerned.  When she and Joe first got married, he showered her with attention.

Now, ten years later, he seems to show more attention to the dog than to his wife.

Sitting at home one day after being told that Joe won't be coming home for dinner because he's got to work late, Alice tries to think of something to help her marriage.  Listening to the radio, she gets an idea.

She goes to see a marriage counselor.  He suggests all sorts of ways to get Joe to be interested his wife.  However, Alice has her doubts about the man.  After she comes in, the counselor calls his wife and tells her that he won't be home for dinner because he's working late!

The suggestions from the counselor include making Joe's favorite meal, bringing him his pipe and slippers in the evening, taking an interest in his business, buying a double bed instead of sleeping in twin beds, and laughing at his jokes.  All of these suggestions seem to fail miserably, making Alice understandably upset.

The marriage counselor has one last suggestion up his sleeve.  Alice should pretend to run away with another man and leave a note on the dining room table.  This she does.

Joe finds out that Alice is pretending and stages a suicide to get her back.  She is furious when she finds out that he is joking.

In the final scene, the narrator asks Alice how she and Joe are doing and if she ever got him back for playing that horrible suicide prank on her.  "Three times," she says with a smile as the camera pans to Joe, who is holding triplets.

Cast rundown:

   George O'Hanlon............................Joe McDoakes

   Phyllis Coates.................................Alice McDoakes

   Art Gilmore....................................Narrator

And that's it for So You Want To Hold Your Husband.  It's not the best installment in the "So You Want To" series, but it is humorous.

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