Dangerous Number is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and written by Carey Wilson.

The film stars Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Reginald Owen, and Cora Witherspoon, and features Dean Jagger.

[1][2] A clothing manufacturer, Hank (Robert Young) returns from a year in Japan, learning about a new formula for synthetic silk, to discover that his girlfriend Eleanor (Ann Sothern) is engaged to marry another man.

After he and Eleanor get married, Hank comes to dislike the show-business friends of his wife and mother-in-law Gypsy (Cora Witherspoon) who pop up at all hours.

In August 1936, it was reported that Madge Evans was taking the role,[3] but it eventually went to Ann Sothern, who was on loan from RKO.