diff --git a/python/pyspark/cloudpickle.py b/python/pyspark/cloudpickle.py
index 4fda2a9b950b8..68062483dedaa 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/cloudpickle.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/cloudpickle.py
@@ -560,8 +560,9 @@ class ItemGetterType(ctypes.Structure):
             ]
 
 
-        itemgetter_obj = ctypes.cast(ctypes.c_void_p(id(obj)), ctypes.POINTER(ItemGetterType)).contents
-        return self.save_reduce(operator.itemgetter, (itemgetter_obj.item,))
+        obj = ctypes.cast(ctypes.c_void_p(id(obj)), ctypes.POINTER(ItemGetterType)).contents
+        return self.save_reduce(operator.itemgetter,
+                obj.item if obj.nitems > 1 else (obj.item,))
 
     if PyObject_HEAD:
         dispatch[operator.itemgetter] = save_itemgetter
diff --git a/python/pyspark/tests.py b/python/pyspark/tests.py
index 63cc5e9ad96fa..621ddcd3ed8e3 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/tests.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/tests.py
@@ -278,6 +278,12 @@ def combOp(x, y):
         self.assertEqual(set([2]), sets[3])
         self.assertEqual(set([1, 3]), sets[5])
 
+    def test_itemgetter(self):
+        rdd = self.sc.parallelize([range(10)])
+        from operator import itemgetter
+        self.assertEqual([1], rdd.map(itemgetter(1)).collect())
+        self.assertEqual([(2, 3)], rdd.map(itemgetter(2, 3)).collect())
+
 
 class TestIO(PySparkTestCase):