Too Many Husbands


Too Many Husbands released in the United Kingdom as My Two Husbands is a 1940 romantic comedy film about a woman who loses her husband in a boating accident and remarries, only to have her first spouse reappearyet another variation on the 1864 poem Enoch Arden by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The film stars Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas, and is based on the 1919 play Home and Beauty by W. Somerset Maugham, which was retitled to Too Many Husbands when it came to New York. The movie was directed by Wesley Ruggles.

Vicky Lowndes Jean Arthur loses her first husband, Bill Cardew Fred MacMurray, in a boating accident in which he is presumed drowned. The lonely widow is comforted by Bills best friend and publishing business partner Henry Lowndes Melvyn Douglas. Six months later, she marries him. Six months after that, Bill shows up, after having been stranded on a uninhabited island and then rescued. Vicky has a tough choice to make. Hilarity ensues.

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