One of the many B pictures Lucille Ball made during her stint at RKO, YOU CAN'T FOOL YOUR WIFE has a premise that wouldn't be out of place as an "I Love Lucy" episode where Lucy would get caught in one of her many schemes to irritate Ricky. (And as an observational note, the black wig she dons late in the movie is rather close to the one she, as Lucy, would use in the aforementioned show.) Clara feels like an outsider in her own marriage and decides to leave her husband, a move that her mother-in-law (Emma Dunn) cheers. However, wouldn't you know -- she still loves the guy and undergoes a radical change, becoming the Latin vamp Mercedes Vasquez. The question remains if her husband will fall for the new Clara or will he fall for her Mercedes persona. And that's it. This is a breeze of a movie, clocking in at a neat 69 minutes, and one that has elements of the screwball in it but remains a little stiff. Strictly for fans of Lucille Ball, outside of her Lucy-universe.
Review of You Can't Fool Your Wife
