My Favorite Wife (1940)
The funniest, fastest honeymoon ever screened!
Seven years after a shipwreck in which she was presumed dead, Ellen Arden arrives home to find that her husband Nick has just remarried. The overjoyed Nick struggles to break the news to his new bride. But he gets a shock when he hears the whole story: Ellen spent those seven years alone on a desert island with another man.
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Irene DunneEllen Wagstaff Arden
Cary GrantNick Arden
Randolph ScottSteve Burkett
Gail PatrickBianca Bates
Ann ShoemakerMa
Scotty BeckettTim ArdenMary Lou HarringtonChinch Arden
Donald MacBrideHotel Clerk
Hugh O'ConnellJohnson
Granville BatesJudge Walter Bryson
Pedro de CordobaDr. Kohlmar
Jean AckerPostponed Case Witness (uncredited)Keywords
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Seven years after a shipwreck in which she was presumed dead, Ellen Arden arrives home to find that her husband Nick has just remarried. The overjoyed Nick struggles to break the news to his new bride. But he gets a shock when he hears the whole story: Ellen spent those seven years alone on a desert island with another man.
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My Favorite Wife has a runtime of 88 minutes.
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