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- My Favorite Wife is a charming and inoffensive comedy with a strong cast, but it is held back by lost comedic opportunities, pacing issues, and noticeable plot holes. It definitely falls short of other Cary Grant comedies of the period (for instance, Arsenic and Old Lace), but it is a perfectly fine film to watch on a cold, rainy evening.
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My Favorite Wife. After his wife, Ellen (Irene Dunne), disappears at sea, Nick Arden (Cary Grant) waits seven long years before finally marrying the lovely Bianca (Gail Patrick).
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- Irene Dunne
- Garson Kanin
- Comedy
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My Favorite Wife is a screwball rendering of the Enoch Emery tale, an old saw about a man thought lost at sea, who returns to find his wife remarried. The twist is that it's Ellen Arden (played brilliantly by Irene Dunne) who returns to find that her children don't recognize her and that her husband, Nick (Cary Grant) has remarried to a ...
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022. Garson Kanin is not Leo McCarey, who was originally assigned to direct this screwball comedy, reuniting Cary Grant and Irene Dunne (Awful Truth...
102 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 8/10. Mostly Funny. kenjha 20 July 2008. After his shipwrecked wife is declared dead and he takes on a new wife, Grant's first wife resurfaces, rescued after seven years on an island.
My Favorite Wife: Directed by Garson Kanin. With Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick. Missing for seven years and presumed dead, a woman returns home on the day of her husband's second marriage.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Garson Kanin
- 1940-05-17
My Favorite Wife, is a 1940 screwball comedy produced by Leo McCarey and directed by Garson Kanin. The picture stars Irene Dunne as a woman who, after being shipwrecked on a tropical island for several years and declared legally dead, returns to her [former] husband and children.
My Favorite Wife is wildly contrived, but fun if you're in the mood. It belongs to that subset of screwball comedy where husbands and wives think they might want a divorce (The Awful Truth) or discover that they're not really married after all (Mr and Mrs Smith).
