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Long-lost and thought-dead Ellen (Irene Dunne) attempts to intercept her newly re-married husband Nick (Cary Grant) as he arrives with Bianca (Gail Patrick) at the same hotel where they honeymooned, with the famous elevator shot, in Leo McCarey's My Favorite Wife, 1940.
Trivia. FAQ. IMDbPro. All topics. Plot. My Favorite Wife. Summaries. Missing for seven years and presumed dead, a woman returns home on the day of her husband's second marriage. Ellen Arden arrives 7 years after being given up for dead in a shipwreck, to find her husband Nick just remarried to Bianca.
YouTube Movies & TV. 181M subscribers. Subscribed. 310. Cary Grant and Irene Dunne star in this classic romantic comedy about a man with one spouse too many--and the resulting legal and romantic...
…1940 Kanin directed the comedy My Favorite Wife. The madcap farce marked the second screen pairing of Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, who gave memorable performances as a couple reunited when the wife is rescued after having been marooned for seven years on an island.
Written by CinemaSerf on June 23, 2022. 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.
This hilarious retread of the old "Enoch Arden" legend stars Irene Dunne as Ellen, who returns home to her husband Nick (Cary Grant) and children Tim (Ann Shoemaker) and Chinch (Mary Lou Harrington) after being marooned on a desert island for seven years.
My Favorite Wife, released in the United Kingdom as My Favourite Wife, is a 1940 screwball comedy produced by Leo McCarey and directed by Garson Kanin.
