So You Want to Hold Your Husband

This is a Warner Brothers short in the Joe McDoakes behind the 8-ball series that it ran before feature films in theaters in the mid-20th century. "So You Want to Hold Your Husband" isn't quite at the level of comedy that most of these shorts are. These served another purpose besides warming up an audience before the main feature in movie theaters of the past. They provided a hedge of time when one wasn't quite able to make it to the theatre before the start of the show. That extra 10 minutes plus a cartoon saved many a late movie goer from missing the opening of a film or from being able to get popcorn before the feature started.

Having marital problems, Alice McDoakes (played by Phyllis Coates) goes for marriage counseling. The name of the firm on their door is the funniest thing in this short - Lamb-Curry and Rice.

Here are the best lines in this short.

Alice McDoakes, on the phone with her mother, "No, mother, it's not my imagination. He's just not like he was when we got married."

Alice McDoakes, on the phone, "But, mother, I tried that. I never use my own razor now."