The Awful Truth
1937
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Academy Award Music (Original Score) 1941 · Nominated
Academy Award Art Direction (Black-and-White) 1941 · Nominated
Academy Award Writing (Original Story) 1941 · Nominated
Best Writing, Original Story. Leo McCarey. Bella Spewack. Sam Spewack. 1941 Nominee Oscar. Best Art Direction, Black-and-White. Van Nest Polglase. Mark-Lee Kirk. 1941 Nominee Oscar.
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. 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 ( Cary Grant ) and children.
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.
- (12K)
- Comedy, Romance
- Garson Kanin
- 1940-05-17
Synopsis. After being shipwrecked on an island off the coast of Indonesia for seven years, Ellen Arden returns home on the very day that her husband Nick has had her declared dead so that he can marry Bianca Bates. After learning from her sympathetic mother-in-law that Nicky has left for Yosemite on his honeymoon, Ellen flies off to the ...
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.
My Favorite Wife was a re-teaming of Grant and Dunne after their romantic comedy The Awful Truth (1937) directed by Leo McCarey. McCarey was slated to direct this one too, but a bad car accident put paid to that, so Garson Kanin was brought in. The script, by Sam and Bella Spewack, feels like it was patterned after the success of the earlier ...
Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for My Favorite Wife (1940) - Garson Kanin on AllMovie - Leo McCarey was supposed to both produce and…
