My Favorite Wife

1940
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1h 28m

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7.3/10

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Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, and Gail Patrick in My Favorite Wife (1940)

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Romantic Comedy Screwball Comedy Comedy Romance

Missing for seven years and presumed dead, a woman returns home on the day of her husband's second marriage.Missing for seven years and presumed dead, a woman returns home on the day of her husband's second marriage.Missing for seven years and presumed dead, a woman returns home on the day of her husband's second marriage.

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

12K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 3 nominations total

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Trivia
Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, who play rivals in this film, lived together on and off between 1932 and 1944.

Goofs
When Ellen has her first hot shower in seven years, she's wearing a bathing cap, rather than wash her hair in the shower.

Quotes
Nick Arden: I came here with my wife... hum... my bride really. Now my wife, not my bride... my wife... Why should I bore you with details?
Hotel clerk: I won't be bored.
Nick Arden: Listen, it's just simple as A B C.
Hotel clerk: Don't tell me you got someone in B?

Crazy credits
Rather than the normal "The End" title as the movie concludes, "Good Night" is drawn in cursive handwriting.

Connections
Edited into Marilyn: Something's Got to Give (1990)

Soundtracks
Jingle Bells
(1857) (uncredited)
Written by James Pierpont
Played as part of the score when Cary Grant dons his Santa Claus costume

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8/10

Better than the remake

I agree that Move Over Darling is a very good remake of My Favorite Wife, but Doris Day and James Garner, much as I like them, cannot reach the level of sophistication of Grant/Dunne. Randolph Scott does nothing to detract from the picture. Certainly no more than Chuck Connors does in the same role in Move Over Darling. The courtroom scenes with Grant and Granville Bates as the judge are superior, and Donald McBride as the hotel clerk is exceptional. Cary Grant's facial expression on the elevator when he first sees Dunne after 7 years is so memorable that I can still remember it 35 years after first seeing it. If you are a Grant fan, you have to see this movie.