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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.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Garson Kanin
- 1940-05-17
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After seven years, lawyer Nick Arden has his wife Ellen, missing since her ship was lost, declared legally dead so he can marryBianca. He has the same judge first make the declaration then perform the marriage ceremony. However, Ellen was actually shipwrecked on a deserted island, and has just been rescued. When she returns home, she sees her son a...
After the great success of The Awful Truth (1937), McCarey signed Cary Grant and Irene Dunne for the film without a script.: 419–420 He was to have directed My Favorite Wife, as well, but after his near-fatal car accident, Garson Kanin was assigned as director.: 148 "On My Favorite Wife," recalled Gail Patrick, "we were desperately trying to be fun...
My Favorite Wife was RKO's second-biggest hit of 1940, after Kitty Foyle,: 144 earning a profit of $505,000.: 148 The New York Sundescribed the film as "built for straight fun. It goes in for giggles, chuckles, and raised eyebrows....'My Favorite Wife' is gay, brittle, amusing farce." "Both in theme and execution, My Favorite Wife was a quasisequel...
Bella and Sam Spewak and Leo McCarey were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story, Roy Webb for Best Score, and Van Nest Polglase and Mark-Lee Kirk for Best Art Direction.
My Favorite Wife was adapted for a 60-minute radio broadcast of Lux Radio Theater on December 9, 1940; Laurence Olivier as Nick Arden and Rosalind Russell as Ellen Arden. Gail Patrick reprised her film role. The March 23, 1941, broadcast of The Screen Guild Theaterpresented a 30-minute adaptation of the film, with Dunne reprising her role and Rober...
20th Century Fox began filming a 1962 remake starring Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin, and Cyd Charisse under the working title of Something's Got to Give, which was to be directed by George Cukor. Problems arose from the beginning, mostly due to Monroe's failure to show up on time for work. Monroe was fired and Martin backed out when the studio attemp...
Three for the Show, a 1955 musical comedy remake of Too Many Husbands, starring Betty Grable, Jack Lemmon, Gower Champion and Marge ChampionMy Favorite Wife at IMDbMy Favorite Wife at AllMovieMy Favorite Wife at the TCM Movie Database- $921,000
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- Leo McCarey
My Favorite Wife - Grant skillfully plays the romantic hunk and the comedic buffoon in this movie about marital mix-ups. Nick Arden (Grant) is on his way to the honeymoon suite with his new bride (Gail Patrick) when he runs into the wife (Irene Dunne) who was lost at sea and presumed dead seven years ago.
My Favorite Wife (1940) Full Cast & Crew. See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro. Directed by. Garson Kanin. Writing Credits. Cast (in credits order) verified as complete. Produced by. Leo McCarey. ... producer (uncredited) Music by. Roy Webb. Cinematography by. Rudolph Maté. ... director of photography. Editing by. Robert Wise. ... (edited by)
My Favorite Wife. In this comedy, Nick is flabbergasted when his wife returns seven years after she was presumed dead and sets out to reclaim her former life - on the day Nick marries someone else. 2,139 1 h 28 min 1940. X-Ray 13+. Romance · Comedy · Charming · Joyous. Available to rent or buy. Rent. HD $2.99. Buy. HD $10.49. More purchase.
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 dilemma--My Favorite Wife. Seven years ago, Nick Arden's...
TOP CRITIC. Jun 24, 2006. TOP CRITIC. Mar 25, 2006. Rated: 4/5 • Aug 17, 2022. Rated: B • Jan 8, 2012. Rated: 2/5 • Jan 10, 2011. After his wife, Ellen (Irene Dunne), disappears at sea, Nick...
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