

My Favorite Wife
The funniest, fastest honeymoon ever screened!
Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $921K
- Box office
- $2.1M
- Language
- English
- jealousy
- judge
- shipwreck
- honeymoon
- bigamy
- confusion
- remarriage
- los angeles, california
- presumed dead
- screwball comedy
- deserted island
- second marriage
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereNRLouisville, Kentucky2 May 1940
- Theatrical17 May 1940
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU13 Jun 1940
BrazilBR
- TheatricalL1 Jan 1941
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1626 Aug 1948
ItalyIT
- Theatrical26 Aug 1948
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My Favorite Wife was released on 17 May 1940.
Audience reviews
1- C6/10
CinemaSerf
6/23/2022
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 can…
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