Her Husband Lies (1937) [NR]

Release Date:
March 13, 1937

Original Title:
Her Husband Lies

Genres:
Crime | Drama

Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR 

Runtime: 74

HE COULDN'T PLAY STRAIGHT WITH A WOMAN!

J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his beautiful wife Natalie, a nightclub singer who retired when they married. Spade's younger brother "Chick" wires Spade from Seattle that he has quit gambling for a job in real estate and is about to marry a nice girl named Betty. Relieved to find his kid brother is straight, Spade sends him $10,000 cash as a wedding present. When a woman posing as a pregnant wife comes to Spade for a loan, Spade gives it to her. Later, when Steve Burdick, the woman's supposed husband, brags in a bar that he made a fool of Spade, Spade's hit man, Trigger, kills Burdick. Tired of Spade's gambling, Natalie books a return engagement at Cafe Nocturne, telling him that she is a singer rather than a wife now.

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Art Direction:
Albert S. D'Agostino

Costume Design:
Edith Head

Director:
Edward Ludwig

Director of Photography:
Leon Shamroy

Editor:
Robert Bischoff

Lyricist:
Ralph Freed

Music:
Gregory Stone

Producer:
B.P. Schulberg

Screenplay:
Wallace Smith
Eve Greene

Songs:
Burton Lane

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