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Too Many Husbands (released in the United Kingdom as My Two Husbands) is a 1940 American romantic comedy film about a woman who loses her husband in a boating accident and remarries, only to have her first spouse reappear—yet another variation on the 1864 poem Enoch Arden by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Too Many Husbands: Directed by Wesley Ruggles. With Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas, Harry Davenport. Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
- (1.7K)
- Comedy, Romance
- Wesley Ruggles
- 1940-03-21
Too Many Husbands (1940) Jean Arthur and Fred MacMurray. Directed by Wesley Ruggles Starring Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas...more.
- 81 min
- 929.3K
- Silver Screen Classics
The story follows Jean Arthur's dilemma as her husband, Fred MacMurray, believed to be dead in a boating accident, unexpectedly returns after she remarries his old friend and business partner, played by Melvyn Douglas.
- Wesley Ruggles, Arthur S. Black
- 1 min
- Jean Arthur
Synopsis, historical analysis, personnel profiles, contemporary reviews, and discussion of the film Too Many Husbands, released in 1940 by Columbia Pictures, starring Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas, Harry Davenport and Dorothy Peterson, and directed by Wesley Ruggles.
Too Many Husbands. When Bill Cardew (Fred MacMurray) goes missing, his ship lost at sea, his wife, Vicky (Jean Arthur), assumes he is dead. A year later, she is married to Bill's old business...
- Romance, Comedy
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A comedy about a woman who has two husbands, one who was declared dead and one who is her business partner. She enjoys the attention from both men, but faces a dilemma when the dead husband returns alive.