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My Favorite Wife

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7.0/10 • 162

1940-05-171h 28m

ComedyRomance

The funniest, fastest honeymoon ever screened!

Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.

Directors
Garson Kanin
Editors
Robert Wise

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  1. Irene Dunne

    Irene Dunne

    Ellen Wagstaff Arden

  2. Cary Grant

    Cary Grant

    Nick Arden

  3. Gail Patrick

    Gail Patrick

    Bianca Bates

  4. Randolph Scott

    Randolph Scott

    Steve Burkett

  5. Ann Shoemaker

    Ann Shoemaker

    Ma

  6. Scotty Beckett

    Scotty Beckett

    Tim Arden

  7. Mary Lou Harrington

    Mary Lou Harrington

    Chinch Arden

  8. Donald MacBride

    Donald MacBride

    Hotel Clerk

  9. Hugh O'Connell

    Hugh O'Connell

    Johnson

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CinemaSerf

Jun 23, 2022

6/10

Whilst it has it's moments; this is really quite a jaded comedy romance. Cary Grant ("Nick") has just married "Bianca" (Gail Patrick) when his previous, presumed dead, wife "Ellen" (Irene Dunne) who went missing seven years earlier in a shipwreck turns up alive and kicking. To add to the rather convoluted storyline, "Ellen" has been stuck all this time on a desert island with Randolph Scott ("Stephen") and as you can imagine loads of confusion ensues now as they all try to decide who actually wants to be married to whom! Grant is his usual, affable, self but the others didn't really do it for me - except, maybe Granville Bates as the hopelessly indecisive judge "Bryson". I'm afraid that I found the story really quite thin - the one joke has some legs, but they tire midway through and the whole thing just becomes too contrived.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$921,000.00
Revenue
$2,057,000.00
Keywords
jealousyjudgeshipwreckmarriagebigamyconfusionpresumed deadscrewball comedydeserted islandremadehilariouscomedy of remarriage