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Day-Time Wife (1939)

Day-Time Wife poster
Original title
Day-time Wife
Directed by
Gregory Ratoff
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 11m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A married couple nearing their second anniversary navigates misunderstandings and romantic complications. The husband hires a new secretary, leading to a series of comic situations.

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What happens

Day-Time Wife is a 1939 screwball comedy directed by Gregory Ratoff, starring Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell. Darnell and Power play Jane and Ken Norton, a married couple approaching their second anniversary. This was Linda Darnell's second film. Day-Time Wife was the first of four films that Darnell and Power made together over the next few years, the others being Brigham Young (1940), The Mark of Zorro (1940), and Blood and Sand (1941). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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