LUCY IN THE MORGUE!

December 24, 1936

The article is slightly misleading in that the title of the RKO film Once Over Lightly was changed to Don’t Tell The Wife, released in March 1937.  Although the film did feature Lucille Ball and Guy Kibbee, Gene Raymond was not in the film.  

Ball and Raymond were together in RKO’s There Goes My Girl, which didn’t begin filming until March 1937. It is possible that Raymond was cut from Don’t Tell The Wife before release, but there is no record of that happening. Further complicating things, Lucille Ball’s scenes were deleted from There Goes My Girl, so although she filmed the picture, she is not in it! 

Jimmy Fidler (1900-88) was a former silent film actor turned journalist and a radio host, much in the vein of Hedda Hopper. His syndicated column “Jimmie Fidler’s Hollywood” appeared in 150 newspapers.