My Favorite Wife

Unrated

5/17/19401h 28m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ The funniest, fastest honeymoon ever screened! ~

Overview:

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.

Director:

Garson Kanin

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$921,000.00

Revenue:

$2,057,000.00

Key words:

jealousy
judge
shipwreck
marriage
bigamy
confusion
presumed dead
screwball comedy
deserted island
remade
hilarious
comedy of remarriage

Cast

Irene Dunne

~ as ~

Ellen Wagstaff Arden

Cary Grant

~ as ~

Nick Arden

Gail Patrick

~ as ~

Bianca Bates

Randolph Scott

~ as ~

Steve Burkett

Ann Shoemaker

~ as ~

Scotty Beckett

~ as ~

Tim Arden

Mary Lou Harrington

~ as ~

Chinch Arden

Donald MacBride

~ as ~

Hotel Clerk

Hugh O'Connell

~ as ~

Johnson

Granville Bates

~ as ~

Judge Walter Bryson

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
6
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.