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!"

Rating

6.972
159 votes

Popularity

1.7447

Origin & Countries

US | en | United States of America

Production

RKO Radio Pictures

Runtime

88 min.

Budget (M$)

2.1 / 0.9ROI 233%

Status

Released

Release: 5/17/1940

Credits

My Favorite Wife

Garson KaninDirector

My Favorite Wife

Irene DunneEllen Wagstaff Arden

My Favorite Wife

Cary GrantNick Arden

My Favorite Wife

Gail PatrickBianca Bates

My Favorite Wife

Randolph ScottSteve Burkett

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

6/23/2022

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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