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My Favorite Wife. 1940. 1 hr 28 mins. Comedy. NR. Watchlist. A woman returns home to her husband and their children after being marooned on a desert island for seven years. But she has been ...
7.3 (11,423) My Favorite Wife is a 1940 screwball comedy directed by Garson Kanin and starring Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, and Randolph Scott. The film centers around a man named Nick Arden, played by Grant, who believes his wife, Ellen, played by Dunne, died in a shipwreck seven years ago. He decides to have her declared legally dead and marries ...
Mar 11, 2024 · My Favorite Wife was RKO's second-biggest hit of 1940, after Kitty Foyle, [3]: 144 earning a profit of $505,000. [3]: 148 The New York Sun described the film as "built for straight fun. It goes in for giggles, chuckles, and raised eyebrows....'My Favorite Wife' is gay, brittle, amusing farce." [9]
225Ratings. MY FAVORITE WIFE. Directed by. Garson Kanin. United States, 1940. Comedy, Romance. 88. Synopsis. Ellen Arden arrives 7 years after being given up for dead in a shipwreck, to find her husband Nick just remarried to Bianca.
My Favorite Wife Irene Dunne and Cary Grant pick up the thread of marital comedy at about the point where they left off in The Awful Truth. With these two stars working again with Leo McCarey, a ...
My Favorite Wife. Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, who play rivals in this film, lived together on and off between 1932 and 1944. Second of three movies that paired Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. Leo McCarey was supposed to direct the film, but shortly before the filming began, he was injured in an automobile accident and had to hand over the ...
