My Favorite Wife(Movie, 1940)

Name: My Favorite Wife
Genre: Comedy, Romance / Love
Released: 1940
Duration: T01:28:00
Rating: 3.5

1h 28min | Genres: Comedy, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.5/5 (with 62 votes)

My Favorite Wife, released in the United Kingdom as My Favourite Wife, is a 1940 screwball comedy produced by Leo McCarey and directed by Garson Kanin. The picture stars Irene Dunne as a woman who, after being shipwrecked on a tropical island for several years and declared legally dead, returns to her [former] husband (Cary Grant) and children. The story is an adaptation of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1864 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 returns, and Randolph Scott as the man with whom his wife was marooned. My Favorite Wife was RKO's second-biggest hit of 1940. ()

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Awards & Nominations for My Favorite Wife

nominated for: Academy Award for Best Story nominated for: Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White nominated for: Academy Award for Best Original Score

About My Favorite Wife

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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Trailer for My Favorite Wife + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Trailer 1(Trailer, 2:41)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Made by: RKO Radio Pictures

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 14 languages: Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU)

Status: Released

Release date US: 05/17/1940

Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Scotty Beckett, Pedro de Cordoba, Ann Shoemaker, Donald MacBride, Granville Bates, Jean Acker, Leon Belasco, Hugh O'Connell, Earle Hodgins, Bert Moorhouse, Bob Reeves, Horace McMahon, Pat West, Franco Corsaro

Director: Garson Kanin

Producer: Leo McCarey

Screenwriter: Garson Kanin, Samuel Spewack, Bella Spewack

Film Editor: Robert Wise

Director of Photography: Rudolph Maté

Composer: Roy Webb

Costume designer: Howard Greer

Production Designer: Van Nest Polglase

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Mi esposa favorita"

"Meine liebste Frau"

"Mijn verkozen vrouw"

"Seine Lieblingsfrau"

"Min yndlingshustru"

"Lempivaimoni"

"My Favourite Wife"

"Poian ap' tis dyo?"

"Ishti Ha-Mooadefet"

"Moja najmilsza zona"

"A Minha Mulher Favorita"

"Min favorithustru"

"Moja najljubsa zena"

"Ilk Göz Agrisi"

Keywords: marriage, shipwreck, presumed dead, jealousy, judge, deserted island

Budget: 921,000 USD

Revenue: 2,057,000 USD (= 223%)

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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My Favorite Wife(Movie, 1940)

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