If You Could Only Cook (1935)

During the Depression, car designer Herbert Marshall is taking a much needed break from work when he meets unemployed Jean Arthur in a park. She automatically assumes he is also out of work and he gamely agrees to pose as a couple to acquire jobs in the household of gangster Leo Carrillo. After a recent Downton Abbey marathon, it was fun watching Marshall learn how to be a good butler from his own servant. Otherwise there’s not much that makes this essential viewing, but Jean Arthur is genuinely appealing here, as in almost all of her roles.