Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaPolly Ann Young, who plays Miss Twill, is the older sister of film star Loretta Young.
- GoofsWhen the woman's personality is in the man's body and the actor in the part shows this with female reactions and gestures, he looks at his fingernails by holding his hand palm up and bending the fingers toward himself. This is the way a man, not a woman, regards their fingernails, and it often appears in fiction as one way by which a man dressed as a woman is caught out. Women study their fingernails by holding a hand palm down and extending the fingers so that they are flat with the rest of the hand.
- Quotes
Sally Willows: Now listen to me, Tim Willows, the situation with this dog of yours has gone entirely too far. He goes to a kennel tomorrow or I go!
Tim Willows: Darling, you wouldn't have much fun in a kennel.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Turnabout (1979)
- SoundtracksMargie
(1920) (uncredited)
Music by Con Conrad and J. Russel Robinson
Lyrics by Benny Davis
Sung by a chorus on radio with modified lyrics
Featured review
This Hal Roach production from 1940 is a great comedy with outstanding actors and plenty of laughs. There is a sex change and body swapping between a husband and wife, the wife role is played by Carole Landis,(Sally Willows), "I Wake Up Screaming" and the husband is performed by John Hubbard, (Tim Willows). These two married couples have a statue of a Buddha which has magical powers and seems to be getting tired of this couple arguing about each other, so he offers this couple a chance to change their sex in order for the wife to perform her husbands duties at the office and the husband will perform the duties of the wife at home. In this household there is a great Dane dog and a bear cub running all around their dwellings. Sally Willows even climbs a flag pole in order to put up an Aeriel. William Gargan, (Joel Clare) and Mary Astor gave great supporting roles. Carole Landis gave a great performance through out the entire picture and was very young and beautiful in this film.
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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