This Time for Keeps is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Ann Rutherford, Robert Sterling, and Guy Kibbee.

Lee White, left alone while his wife Kit is out of town, moves in with her parents just to have some company.

Lee is persuaded by father-in-law Harry to quit is job as a car salesman and come into the real-estate business with him.

His first assignment is to sell a piece of land to Arthur Freeman, a wealthy property investor.

Lee joins the rest of the family at a costume ball, where both Harry and Freeman are dressed as clowns.