Adolphe Menjou
Frederic "Freddie" Osborne Senior
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Father Takes a Wife: Directed by Jack Hively. With Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Swanson, John Howard, Desi Arnaz. Frederick Osborne Junior is slightly agitated because his father, Senior, is acting more like a college student than the president of a huge mercantile fleet.
- (616)
- Comedy, Romance
- Jack Hively
- 1941-10-03
Father Takes a Wife is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Jack Hively and starring Gloria Swanson, Adolphe Menjou and John Howard. Silent screen queen Gloria Swanson returned to films after a seven-year absence.
In Father Takes a Wife, Swanson played a Broadway star who marries shipping magnate Menjou, to the consternation of his son and daughter-in-law. Like Swanson, Menjou had been a silent screen star, and he and Swanson were old friends, but the two had never worked together.
- Jack Hively, William Dorfman, Peter Godfrey
- Adolphe Menjou
A shipping magnate (Adolphe Menjou) and his actress wife (Gloria Swanson) meet a singing Latin stowaway (Desi Arnaz) on their rough honeymoon cruise.
- Comedy
- Adolphe Menjou
- Jack Hively
Staid shipping magnate Osborne Sr.'s life is transformed when he falls in love with actress Leslie Collier. (Much to the chagrin of his son and daughter-in-law, who wish that he would act his age.) But while on their honeymoon they discover a young singer, Carlos Bardez, stowed away on their yacht.
Father Takes a Wife (1941) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Herbert Fields. Screenplay. A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.
