The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)

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A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
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Apr 25, 1940
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01h 28m
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A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

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