Malcom "Dinky" Winthrop — Don't Tell the Wife Character Profile

About Malcom "Dinky" Winthrop

Hired as an unwitting head of the bogus investment company to add legitimacy. Upon inspecting the mine, he discovers its true profitability, buys all shares to gain control, funds the project through Nancy, and shuts out Manning.

Malcom "Dinky" Winthrop — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Guy Kibbee

Appears in

Don't Tell the Wife (1937)

Role

Protagonist

More characters from Don't Tell the Wife

• Nancy Dorsey (Una Merkel)
• Steve Dorsey (Lynne Overman)
• Major Manning (Thurston Hall)
• Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal (Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams)
• Insperator Mallory (Frank M. Thomas)
• Warden (George Irving)
• Larry 'Horace' Tucker (William Demarest)
• Annie Howell (Lucille Ball)
• Mike Callahan (Harry Tyler)
• Salesman Hagar (Bradley Page)
• Mamie (uncredited) (Hattie McDaniel)
• Sam Taylor (Si Jenks)