- An executive lets an attractive cook talk him into taking a job as butler.
- Auto magnate James Buchanan has a fiancée who doesn't love him and a board of directors who won't listen to him. Brooding on a park bench, he meets unemployed Joan Hawthorne, a fine cook who needs a partner to apply for a 'couple' butler/cook job with gourmet ex-bootlegger Mike Rossini. Bemused, Buchanan goes along with the gag, taking lessons from his own butler. But there's sure to be a day of reckoning...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
- Wealthy industrialist Jim Buchanan, founder and president of the Buchanan Motor Car Company, laments having to settle in life as opposed the zestful exuberance he had as a youth. This settling includes not having the will to fight harder for his new designs against the company Board, those designs which he knows would revolutionize the industry. But probably more problematic is that he wishes he felt the giddy romantic love for the woman he would marry, instead of the practical feeling he has for his socialite fiancée Evelyn Fletcher who he knows will make an appropriate wife for him. Out for a walk to nurse his wounds after the latest battle with the Board, Jim meets down and out Joan Hawthorne who is looking through the want ads for a job, she assuming he too unemployed and looking for work. Although she knows how to cook but has never done so professionally, Joan, after speaking to Jim about their situation, is able to convince him that they should apply for the advertised jobs as butler and cook, those jobs meant for a husband/wife team, he, using the name Jim Burns, agreeing if only for looking for that excitement in life. After getting the jobs, Jim is able to get word back to his loyal butler to spread the word to anyone who asks or needs to know that he has gone on a fishing trip. As Jim and Joan embark on their work, complications ensue from a combination of the following: Jim discovers that the rough around the edges nature of their employer Mike Rossini is because he is a gangster; Rossini's right hand thug, Flash, doesn't think that Jim and Joan are who they purport to be despite they seeming to know how to do their jobs; Rossini starts to fall for "married" Joan; and arguably most importantly Jim starts to fall for Joan himself, he wanting his time with her to be forever instead of with Evelyn, which may or may not be possible under the circumstances.—Huggo
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By what name was If You Could Only Cook (1935) officially released in Canada in English?
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