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My Favorite Wife
My Favorite Wife

My Favorite Wife

1940 88 min ★ 7.0 Comedy, Romance

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.

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Cast

Cary Grant

Cary Grant

Nick Arden

Irene Dunne

Irene Dunne

Ellen Wagstaff Arden

Randolph Scott

Randolph Scott

Steve Burkett

Gail Patrick

Gail Patrick

Bianca Bates

Ann Shoemaker

Ann Shoemaker

Ma

Scotty Beckett

Scotty Beckett

Tim Arden

Mary Lou Harrington

Chinch Arden

Donald MacBride

Donald MacBride

Hotel Clerk

Hugh O'Connell

Hugh O'Connell

Johnson

Granville Bates

Granville Bates

Judge Walter Bryson

Details

Director

Garson Kanin

Screenplay

Bella Spewack

Tagline

"The funniest, fastest honeymoon ever screened!"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$921,000

Revenue

$2,057,000

Production

RKO Radio Pictures

Reviews

C

CinemaSerf

June 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 ("Step...

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