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The Matrimonial Bed (1930)

The Matrimonial Bed poster
Directed by
Michael Curtiz
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 09m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man finds himself in a humorous tangle of mistaken identity and marriage mix-ups. Things get complicated when a long-lost spouse reappears.

lightheartedplayfulwittydatedfast-pacedwhimsicalromanticcomic

What happens

The Matrimonial Bed is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film produced and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. Directed by Michael Curtiz, it was based on the French play by André Mouëzy-Éon and Yves Mirande. The English version of the play, by Sir Seymour Hicks, opened in New York on October 12, 1927, and had 13 performances. In the United Kingdom, the film is known as A Matrimonial Problem. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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