

She Couldn't Take It
DirectorTay Garnett
“"Listen sweetheart - you're going to get a lesson in love!"”
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
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Cast

George Raft
Joe "Spot" Ricardi

Joan Bennett
Carol Van Dyke

Walter Connolly
Daniel Van Dyke

Billie Burke
Mrs. Daniel Van Dyke

Lloyd Nolan
Tex

Wallace Ford
"Fingers" Boston

James Blakeley
Tony Van Dyke

Alan Mowbray
Alan Bartlett

William Tannen
Cesar

Donald Meek
Uncle Wyndersham

Stanley Andrews
Attorney Wyndersham

Frank Austin
Railroad Attendant
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