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My Favorite Wife(1940)
Status: Released
Date: 1940-05-17
70%
168 Votes
Time: 1h 28m
The funniest, fastest honeymoon ever screened!
Overview:
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
Budget: $921,000.00
Revenue: $2,057,000.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: My Favorite Wife
Top 10 Billed Cast
Cary Grant
Nick Arden
Irene Dunne
Ellen Wagstaff Arden
Randolph Scott
Steve Burkett
Gail Patrick
Bianca Bates
Ann Shoemaker
Ma
Scotty Beckett
Tim Arden
Donald MacBride
Hotel Clerk
Hugh O'Connell
Johnson
Granville Bates
Judge Walter Bryson
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