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My Favorite Wife

My Favorite Wife

Comedy · Romance · 1940

Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.

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My Favorite Wife

“The funniest, fastest honeymoon ever screened!”

1940 Comedy · Romance 1h 28m

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7.0 / 10

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Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Garson Kanin

Written by

Bella Spewack · Sam Spewack

Cary Grant

Cary Grant

Nick Arden

Irene Dunne

Irene Dunne

Ellen Wagstaff Arden

Randolph Scott

Randolph Scott

Steve Burkett

Gail Patrick

Gail Patrick

Bianca Bates

Ann Shoemaker

Ann Shoemaker

Ma

Scotty Beckett

Scotty Beckett

Tim Arden

M

Mary Lou Harrington

Chinch Arden

Court is in session

Put My Favorite Wife on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.