My Favorite Wife

My Favorite Wife released in the U.K. as My Favourite Wife is a 1940 screwball comedy produced and cowritten 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 Tennysons 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 RKOs secondbiggest hit of 1940.

When Ellen tracks him down before his honeymoon night, he is at a loss as to how to break the news to Bianca. He keeps putting off the unpleasant business. Meanwhile, Bianca becomes frustrated by Nicks odd behavior especially the nonconsummation of their marriage and calls in a psychiatrist, Dr. Kohlmar Pedro de Cordoba. Further complications ensue when an insurance adjuster Hugh OConnell mentions to Nick a rumor that Ellen was not alone on the island, but had the company of a Stephen Burkett Randolph Scott and that they called each other Adam and Eve. When Nick confronts Ellen, she recruits a mousy shoe salesman an uncredited Chester Clute to pretend to be Stephen, but Nick has already tracked down the real, appallingly virile and handsome Stephen Randolph Scott.Nick tries to explain the situation to Bianca and a psychiatrist she has asked to help her, Dr. Kohlmar, but they do not believe him ... until he is arrested on a charge of bigamy. In court, Judge Bryson Granville Bates, the same judge who had Ellen declared legally dead and also married Nick and Bianca, annuls the second marriage. By this time, Ellen is no longer sure of Nicks feelings for her. Stephen asks her to marry him and return with him to the island, but she still loves Nick. In the end, Nick and Ellen are reconciled. ........

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