My Favorite Wife (1940)

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Directed by

Garson Kanin

Starring (View all)

Irene Dunne
Ellen Wagstaff Arden

Cary Grant
Nick Arden

Randolph Scott
Stephen Burkett

Gail Patrick
Bianca Bates

Ann Shoemaker
Ma Arden

Scotty Beckett
Tim Arden

Mary Lou Harrington
Chinch Arden

Donald MacBride
Yosemite Hotel Clerk

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Bella Spewack
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Sam Spewack

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4 years, 10 months ago at Jul 1 2:35

gypsyflair

Garson Kanin's best films are so bright, fast and funny, and have been plundered by so many pallid, feel-good imitators, that it's easy to overlook how courageously critical they can be, of prevailing social norms, for instance, what society takes to be normal - 'natural' - about crucial concepts like family, gender, marriage etc. In 'My Favorite wife', Kanin takes the idea that a particular socia... read more

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

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Tags: Comedy (8), Romance (7), 1940s (4), Screwball (4), 1940 (3), Black And White (2), California (2), Marriage (2), Law (2), Secret Identity (2), Family (2), Own (1), America (1), Court (1), Cary Grant (1), American (1), Lawyer (1), Farce (1), Screwball Comedy (1), Shipwreck (1)

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“Garson Kanin's best films are so bright, fast and funny, and have been plundered by so many pallid, feel-good imitators, that it's easy to overlook how courageously critical they can be, of prevailing social norms, for instance, what society takes to be normal - 'natural' - about crucial concepts like family, gender, marriage etc. In 'My Favorite wife', Kanin takes the idea that a particular social order is natural, and tears it apart, by putting civilisation on one side, nature on the other, and revealing that there's nothing remotely natural about civilisation, or our places in it; that these things are man-made, and so can be questioned, negotiated, even changed by man (or, as is more usual in Kanin's world, woman).” read more