Too Many Husbands (1940)
- Directed by
- Wesley Ruggles
- Genre
- comedy of remarriage, romantic comedy film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Rated
- U
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 21 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 woman remarries after believing her husband died in a boating accident. Her first husband then returns alive, forcing her to deal with having two husbands at once.
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What happens
Too Many Husbands (released in the United Kingdom as My Two Husbands) is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles, starring Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas. The plot centres on a woman who believes her husband has perished in a boating accident and remarries, only to have her first spouse reappear. The film is based on the 1919 W. Somerset Maugham play Home and Beauty, which was itself retitled Too Many Husbands when it came to New York, and itself takes inspiration from the 1864 Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem Enoch Arden. In April 1947, a radio adaptation of the film starring Lucille Ball, Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra aired as an episode of The Screen Guild Theater. In 1955, the film was remade as Three for the Show, a musical starring Jack Lemmon and Betty Grable. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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