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

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.

playfulfast-pacedwhimsicalwittyfar-fetchedlightheartedscrewballromantic

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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