My Favorite Wife (1940) Reviews & Ratings

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My Favorite Wife reviews

My Favorite Wife holds a 7.0/10 average from 176 TMDB ratings.

Whilst it has it's moments; this is really quite a jaded comedy romance. Cary Grant ("Nick") has just married "Bianca" (Gail Patrick) when his previous, presumed dead, wife "Ellen" (Irene Dunne) who went missing seven years earlier in a shipwreck turns up alive and kicking. To add to the rather convoluted storyline, "Ellen" has been stuck all this time on a desert island with Randolph Scott ("Stephen") and as you ca…
— CinemaSerf (6/10)

Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.

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