Postal Union

A telegraph postal union worker has no luck when asks a pretty co-worker to marry him. She says he'd have to be a magician to get her to say yes. Things are complicated when, as a favor to a stuttering acquaintance, he takes his overweight girlfriend to the movies to propose to her by proxy. Unfortunately the pretty co-worker spots him with her in the theater, so he begins to learn magic tricks.

1937

0h 21min

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Top Billed Cast

Georgie Price
Postal Union Employee
Vera Dunn
Sally
Marilyn Marlowe
Toni Lane
Singer
Eddie Bruce
Postal Union Desk Manager
Alice Murphy
Bessie (uncredited)

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