You Can't Cheat An Honest Man (1939) - (Movie Clip) Are You Eating A Tomato?

Name: You Can't Cheat An Honest Man (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Eating A Tomato?
Uploaded: 2015-09-03T00:00:00-04:00
Duration: 3 min 55 s
Description: Much as it would have played in their earlier vaudeville days, W.C. Fields as circus proprietor Whipsnade, and Edgar Bergen with his ever-present dummy Charlie McCarthy (playing off the latters long-running radio feud with Fields), plus the dumber Mortimer Snerd, in You Cant Cheat An Honest Man, 1939.

Much as it would have played in their earlier vaudeville days, W.C. Fields as circus proprietor Whipsnade, and Edgar Bergen with his ever-present dummy Charlie McCarthy (playing off the latter’s long-running radio feud with Fields), plus the dumber Mortimer Snerd, in You Can’t Cheat An Honest Man, 1939.

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