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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

1939-02-171h 16mComedy7.0/10TMDB · 21 votes

Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.

“AT LAST YOU CAN SEE THESE FAMOUS FEUDSTERS CLASH ON THE SCREEN!”

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Directed byGeorge Marshall Edward F. Cline

Original languageEnglish

Original release1939-02-17

ProductionUnited States of America

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W.C. FieldsLarson E. Whipsnade

Edgar BergenThe Great Edgar / Charlie McCarthy / Mortimer Snerd

Eddie 'Rochester' AndersonCheerful

Constance MooreVictoria Whipsnade

John ArledgePhineas Whipsnade

James BushRoger Bel-Goodie

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Thurston HallMr. Archibald Bel-Goodie Mary ForbesMrs. Bel-Goodie Edward BrophyCorbett Arthur HohlBurr Princess BabaPrincess Baba, The Great Edgar's Assistant Charlie McCarthyCharlie (ventriloquist dummy)Mortimer SnerdMortimer (ventriloquist dummy)BlacamanBlacaman - The Lion Tamer (uncredited)Ernie AdamsEddie - Circus Attendant (uncredited)Dorothy Arnold1st Debutante (uncredited)Irving BaconJailer (uncredited)Lulu Mae BohrmanWedding Guest (uncredited)Ralph BrooksWedding Guest (uncredited)Eddy ChandlerHighway Patrol Officer (uncredited)Dora ClementWoman (uncredited)Jack Rube CliffordRiding Master (uncredited)Richard ClucasLittle Boy (uncredited)Charles ColemanRobinson - Bel-Goodie's Butler (uncredited)Evelyn Del RioLittle Girl Who Cries (uncredited)Drew DemorestBarker (uncredited)Dick DickinsonContortionist (uncredited)Jan DugganMrs. Sludge (uncredited)Eddie DunnCop (uncredited)Billy EngleCircus Attendant Jack GardnerTicket Seller (uncredited)Grace GoodallScreaming Spinster / Wedding Guest (uncredited)Jennifer Gray3rd Debutante (uncredited)Bobby HaleCircus Attendant (uncredited)Ted HardyRussian Circus Performer (uncredited)Sam HarrisWedding Guest (uncredited)Leyland HodgsonButler (uncredited)Otto HoffmanMayor (uncredited)Lloyd IngrahamMayor / Wedding Guest (uncredited)Frank JenksJerry - Assistant (uncredited)Si JenksHillbilly (uncredited)Tiny JonesSpectator (uncredited)Jack KenneyBarker (uncredited)Joe KingPoliceman (uncredited)Ivan LebedeffRonnie (uncredited)Ethelreda LeopoldBlonde at Party (uncredited)Jimmie LucasBarker (uncredited)Kathryn Marlowe2nd Debutante (uncredited)Eric MayneWedding Guest (uncredited)Frank MeltonFirst Yokel (uncredited)Harold MillerParty Guest (uncredited)Edmund MortimerWedding Guest (uncredited)James C. MortonJudge (uncredited)Ray MoyerFire Eater (uncredited)Byron MunsonPing-Pong Player (uncredited)Charles MurphyLon - Roustabout (uncredited)Frank O'ConnorCop with Judge (uncredited)George Offerman, Jr.Western Union Man (uncredited)David OliverMan Cheated at Window (uncredited)George OveyCircus Attendant (uncredited)Lee PhelpsSheriff (uncredited)June PrestonLittle Blond Girl Singing and Dancing (uncredited)Ralph SanfordTruck Driver (uncredited)Harry StaffordParty Guest (uncredited)Grady SuttonChester Dalrymple (uncredited)Ferris TaylorDeputy Sheriff (uncredited)Don TerryPing-Pong Player (uncredited)Walter TetleyBoy with Candy Cane (uncredited)Edward ThomasBel-Goodie Butler (uncredited)Lelah TylerSociety Woman / Wedding Guest (uncredited)Minerva UrecalScreaming Spinster at Circus (uncredited)Dale Van SickelWedding Guest (uncredited)Russell WadeWedding Guest (uncredited)Beryl WallaceGirl (uncredited)Delmar WatsonBoy with Slingshot (uncredited)Florence WixWedding Guest (uncredited)Bill WolfeTicket Buyer / Brentwood - World's Smallest Giant (uncredited)Edward WoolfThin Man (uncredited)Bill WorthElwood - World's Largest Midget (uncredited)Arthur YeomanBarker (uncredited)Duke YorkMinor Role (uncredited)Ruth CherringtonParty Guest (uncredited)Hazel DohlmanWedding Guest (uncredited)

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