Arthur Takes Over is a 1948 American comedy film directed by Malcolm St. Clair and written by Mauri Grashin.

The film stars Lois Collier, Richard Crane, Skip Homeier, Ann E. Todd and Jerome Cowan.

[1][2][3][4] Mrs. Bixby (Barbara Brown) is determined that her daughter Margaret (Lois Collier) will marry a successful man and arrange a match.

In an attempt to distract their mother, Margaret’s younger brother (Howard Freeman) pretends to be engaged, but only makes matters worse.

Film historian Ruth Anne Dwyer reports that the scripts offered to St. Clair at 20th Century Fox in the late 1940s were “the weakest he had encountered” from the studio.”[6] Though Arthur Takes Over exhibits “some charm and reasonable production values” the storyline is decidedly weak, “almost plotless.”[7]