My Favorite Wife (1940)
- Directed by
- Garson Kanin
- Genre
- comedy of remarriage, romantic comedy film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 173 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man remarries after his first wife is presumed dead. She returns from being shipwrecked and tries to reclaim her place in his life.
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What happens
My Favorite Wife is a 1940 American screwball comedy film produced by Leo McCarey and directed by Garson Kanin. It stars Irene Dunne as a woman who, after being shipwrecked on a tropical island for several years and declared legally dead, returns to her former husband (Cary Grant) and children. The story is an adaptation of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1864 poem "Enoch Arden". In tribute, the main characters' last name is Arden. The supporting cast features Gail Patrick as the woman Arden has just married when his first wife returns, and Randolph Scott as the man with whom his wife was marooned. My Favorite Wife was RKO's second most successful film of 1940. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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