My Favorite Wife
1940
ComedyRomance
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.
"The funniest, fastest honeymoon ever screened!"
US | en | United States of America
RKO Radio Pictures
88 min.
2.1 / 0.9ROI 233%
Released
Release: 5/17/1940
Garson KaninDirector
Irene DunneEllen Wagstaff Arden
Cary GrantNick Arden
Gail PatrickBianca Bates
Randolph ScottSteve Burkett
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CinemaSerf
6/23/2022
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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