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My Favorite Wife (1940)
Directed by Garson Kanin
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Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.
Rated NR | Length 88 minutes
Actors
Irene Dunne | Cary Grant | Gail Patrick | Randolph Scott | Ann Shoemaker | Scotty Beckett | Mary Lou Harrington | Donald MacBride | Hugh O'Connell | Granville Bates | Pedro de Cordoba | Jean Acker | Murray Alper | Leon Belasco | Joe Cabrillas | Bill Cartledge | Chester Clute | Corky | Franco Corsaro | Florence Dudley | Hal Gerard | Roque Guinart | Earle Hodgins | Edna Holland | Thelma Joel | Cy Kendall | Ellen Lowe | Margarita Martín | Horace McMahon | Sue Moore | Bert Moorhouse | Clive Morgan | George Noisom | Bob Reeves | Ronald R. Rondell | Matty Roubert | Eli Schmudkler | Pat West
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/08/2020 | TV | DVD | Library | 6.5 stars |
| (Average) 6.5 stars |
Viewing Notes
This was the opening film for the new season presented by Chicago Film Society tonight. Would’ve been nice to see in 35mm but also nice to get the movie from the library and save the $$ and time. Esp tonight when it’s 20° outside.
I’m sure this rom-com played well to the CFS audience. Not exactly sure why they booked this movie which is kinda like a cousin to The Awful Truth including having the same leads (I love Irene Dunne!). If I had to guess it’s the sequence where Cary Grant is smitten w/the guy his ex-wife spent time with on the island. I’m sure it was a silly harmless thing then but reading it now given our knowledge of Grant it becomes a rather interesting scene (especially when he fantasizes about this man later).
Outside of that this is a perfectly fine affluent white people problems movie of 1940. I don’t think there’s one POC in the entire film even as a maid or service worker. The plot is one of those “instead of just doing the rational thing we gonna lie and use subterfuge to get thru it” things. So a bit annoying but entertaining all the same for Grant/Dunne paired up again.
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