Jean Arthur
Vicky Lowndes
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- 1940 · Romantic comedy · 1h 24m
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. 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...
- (20)
- Dennis Schwartz
- Romance, Comedy
- Wesley Ruggles
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.
The stars of this 1940 film are Jean Arthur, Melvyn Douglas, Fred MacMurray and Harry Davenport. After her first husband, Bill Cardew (MacMurray) was lost at sea, his grieving, lonely widow Vicky marries his friend and business partner, Henry Lowndes (Douglas) six months later.
Too Many Husbands is a 1940 American romantic comedy movie directed by Wesley Ruggles and was based on the 1919 play of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham. It stars Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas, Harry Davenport, Dorothy Peterson, Meville Cooper and was distributed by Columbia Pictures.
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Though overshadowed by Cary Grant’s My Favorite Wife (also released in 1940), TOO MANY HUSBANDS has many charms to offer, not the least of which being the sublime Arthur who shines as a woman forced to choose between her shipwrecked-and-presumed-dead first husband Bill (MacMurray) and her current stalwart partner Henry (Douglas).
