Movei My Favorite Wife comedy released in the U.K.. My Favourite Wife film is a 1940 screwball comedy starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant that tells the story of a woman returning home to her husband and children after being shipwrecked on a tropical island for seven years. It is a reworking of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Enoch Arden"; in tribute, the main characters' last name is Arden. Garson Kanin directed.
MY FAVORITE WIFE 1940 TRAILER
Theatrical trailer for the 1940 comedy "My Favorite Wife" featuring Garson Kanin as DIRECTOR. Seven years after his wife's disappearance, Cary Grant gets re-married.
The film was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Story, Best Score and Best Art Direction by Van Nest Polglase and Mark-Lee Kirk.
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Ellen Wagstaff Arden (Irene Dunne) returns to her beloved husband Nick (Cary Grant), just as he has had her declared legally dead (seven years being the minimum period required), so he can marry the high strung Bianca (Gail Patrick). Ellen reaches Nick just before he embarks on his honeymoon. Further complications ensue when Nick discovers that the virile Stephen Burkett (Randolph Scott) was alone with Ellen on the island all those years.
Cast My Favorite Wife:
Irene Dunne as Ellen Wagstaff Arden
Cary Grant as Nick Arden
Randolph Scott as Stephen Burkett
Gail Patrick as Bianca Bates
Ann Shoemaker as Ma
Scotty Beckett as Tim
Mary Lou Harrington as Chinch
Donald MacBride as Hotel clerk
Hugh O'Connell as Johnson
Granville Bates as Judge
Pedro de Cordoba as Dr. Kohlmar
20th Century Fox began filming a 1962 remake starring Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin, and Cyd Charisse under the working title of Something's Got to Give, which was to be directed by George Cukor. There were problems from the beginning, mostly due to Monroe's failure to show up on time for work. Monroe was fired and Martin backed out when the studio attempted to recast Monroe's role with Lee Remick. Following Monroe's death in August 1962, Doris Day and James Garner were cast, and the new version was released by Fox as Move Over, Darling (1963). info (c) wikipedia.org