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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780646681
Format: Closed-captioned, Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780646681
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 01, 2004
Running Time: 88 minutes
Sales Rank: 11019
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: May 17, 1940
Editorial Review:
Description:
All aboard for a spinning marriage-go-round! Cary Grant, the screen's ideal combination of romantic hunk and comedy buffoon, plays flabbergasted Nick. Radiant Irene Dunne, Grant's The Awful Truth and Penny Serenade co-star, plays the returned wife who cagily sets out to reclaim her former life. And Randolph Scott and Gail Patrick add to the marital mixup as Nick goes from having one wife to two to none to one. The right one. What romantic comedy has joined together let no one put asunder. Of all the giddy screwball comedies ever made, this remains an enduring favorite.
Amazon.com:
That delightful couple from The Awful Truth, Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, revisit the world of marital confusion. Presuming his wife to be dead, Grant remarries--on the same day that his bedraggled spouse (that's Dunne) returns. Seems she's been stranded on a desert island for seven years (with strapping hunk Randolph Scott, too). The moment Cary spots his resurrected wife, as an elevator door slides shut, is one of the many funny gags in this comedy, and the final sequence is memorably wacky. Awful Truth director Leo McCarey prepared the film, but it was directed by author Garson Kanin. The two stars are so adept at farce, and so effortless in conveying their characters' mutual affection, that the movie triumphs over the whopper of a plot device. It was supposed to be remade as the ill-fated Marilyn Monroe film Something's Got to Give, and ended up Move Over, Darling with Doris Day. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Adam and Eve alone on an island for seven years
There was a shipwreck and Nicolas (Cary Grant) gets separated from his wife Ellen (Irene Dunne.) She was never seen again. Seven years later Nick, widower with two children and living with his mother finds love again, Bianca (Gail Patrick.)
Now it is time to start a new life with Bianca; so Nick goes to court and has Ellen legally declared dead and in the same breath marries Bianca. But wait what is this? Ellen returns that very day. The complications begin. But wait there is more Ellen ... Read More
Rating: - "So, you thought she would make a good mother for MY children?"
On man; two wives! Trouble!
Cary Grant is hilarious as Nicholas Arden, a single man raising his two kids after his wife supposedly drowned seven years before. He finally declares her legally dead and marries his fiance, Bianca. And wouldn't you know it! - That same day his wife, Ellen (Irene Dunne), shows up after being rescued by a Portuguese ship. Everything gets comedic as he tries to explain the ordeal to his bride (Don't confuse his "bride" with his "wife")and when he discovers that ... Read More
Rating: - "I came here with my wife... hum... my bride really. Now my wife, not my bride... my wife..."
Romantic and screwball comedy dream-team Cary Grant and Irene Dunne are absolutely hilarious in MY FAVORITE WIFE (1940), a classic comedy from the golden age which still stands up very well today.
Nick Arden (Cary Grant) has just had his wife declared legally dead, ten years after she went missing at sea during an anthropology expedition. Ready to finally move on with his life, Nick marries beautiful Bianca (Gail Patrick) and heads off on his honeymoon. Meanwhile back at the Arden house, his ... Read More
Rating: - Love It!
I think I've watched this movie at least 50 times since getting it! Fun movie! A classic! Cary Grant and Irene Dunne make a great team!
Rating: - Old fashioned Charm
The charms of Irene Dunne (whose secret, endorsed by the Studio, was to work from 10 am to 6 pm), Cary Grant and Randolph Scott (off the screen Cary Grant's good friend) had this comedy float in the air. Mr. Alden (Cary Grant) and Mrs. Ellen Arden (Irene Dunne) were married 4 years with 2 toddlers before Ellen was missing for 7 years after a shipwreck. When she came back she found a blend new (less than 24 hours) Mrs. Bianca Arden on a honeymoon.
What followed was Mr. Arden's unsuccessful ... Read More
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