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My Favorite Wife is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Garson Kanin released in USA on 17 may 1940 with Irene Dunne
My Favorite Wife (1940)
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Add to a movie listMy Favorite Wife (released in the U.K. as My Favourite Wife) is a 1940 screwball comedy produced and co-written by Leo McCarey and directed by Garson Kanin. The picture stars Irene Dunne as a woman who returns to her husband and children after being shipwrecked on a tropical island for several years, and Cary Grant as her husband. The story is an adaptation of Alfred Lord Tennyson's 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, now declared dead, returns, and Randolph Scott as the man with whom his wife had been marooned. My Favorite Wife was RKO's second-biggest hit of 1940.
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After seven years, lawyer Nick Arden (Cary Grant) has his wife Ellen (Irene Dunne), missing since her ship was lost, declared legally dead so he can marry Bianca (Gail Patrick). It turns out however that Ellen was merely shipwrecked on a deserted island, and has been rescued. When she returns home, she learns that Nick has just left on his honeymoon with his second wife.Actors
Irene Dunne
(Ellen Wagstaff Arden)
Cary Grant
(Nick Arden)
Randolph Scott
(Steve Burkett)
Gail Patrick
(Bianca Bates)
Ann Shoemaker
(Ma)
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