My Favorite Wife (1940) |
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| Director(s) | Garson Kanin |
| Producer(s) | Leo McCarey (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Romance |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Husband Wife, Marriage, Mistaken Identity, Romance (Comic), Screwball Comedy |
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My Favorite Wife
Released
1940
Irene Dunne
(as Ellen Arden)
My Favorite Wife
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Cary Grant
(as Nick Arden)
My Favorite Wife
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Randolph Scott
(as Steve Burkett)
My Favorite Wife
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Gail Patrick
(as Bianca Bates)
My Favorite Wife
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Ann Shoemaker
(as Ellen's mother)
My Favorite Wife
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Donald MacBride
(as Hotel Clerk)
My Favorite Wife
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Granville Bates
(as Judge Walter Bryson)
My Favorite Wife
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1940
Pedro de Cordoba
(as Dr. Kohlmar)
My Favorite Wife Overview:
My Favorite Wife (1940) was a Comedy - Romance Film directed by Garson Kanin and produced by Leo McCarey.
The film was based on the poem Enoch Arden written by Alfred (Lord) Tennyson published in 1864.
Academy Awards 1940 --- Ceremony Number 13 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Art Direction | Van Nest Polglase, Mark-Lee Kirk | Nominated |
| Best Music - Scoring | Roy Webb | Nominated |
| Best Writing | Bella Spewack, Samuel Spewack, Leo McCarey | Nominated |
My Favorite Wife BlogHub Articles:
Silver Screen Standards: My Favorite Wife (1940)
My Favorite Wife (1940) I’ve shown a lot of comedies to my lifetime learners over the years, but I’ve rarely heard an audience laugh as uproariously as they did during a recent screening of My Favorite Wife (1940), which we watched as part of a series featuring Cary Grant. The peals of laught... Read full article
Classic Films in Focus: MY FAVORITE WIFE (1940)
My Favorite Wife (1940) reunites stars Irene Dunne and Cary Grant after their first pairing as a comedic couple in The Awful Truth (1937), and once again there's both love and trouble. Grant plays a husband flummoxed by the return of his supposedly dead first wife on the very day that he marries his... Read full article
Classic Films in Focus: MY FAVORITE WIFE (1940)
My Favorite Wife (1940) reunites stars Irene Dunne and Cary Grant after their first pairing as a comedic couple in The Awful Truth (1937), and once again there's both love and trouble. Grant plays a husband flummoxed by the return of his supposedly dead first wife on the very day that he marries his... Read full article
The Cary Grant Blogathon: My Favorite Wife (1940)
“Make up your mind old man. You’re not allowed to have two wives, you know”… Like many Classic Movie fans, I just adore Cary Grant — and I just adore about every film that he ever made in his 30+ year film career. He can play anything from suave, sophisticated and sexy — to befu... Read full article
My Favorite Wife (1940)
This is a film that I arrived at by a rather roundabout route indeed. Let me explain. I genuinely loved Cary Grant and Irene Dunne’s chemistry in The Awful Truth, but I wanted to watch My Favorite Wife before moving onto their final film together Penny Serenade. Time passed and I found two oth... Read full article
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My Favorite Wife Quotes:
Nick Arden: The moment I saw you downstairs, I knew...
Ellen Wagstaff Arden: Oh, go on, I bet you say that to all your wives.
Nick Arden: The moment I saw you downstairs, I knew...
Ellen Wagstaff Arden aka Eve: Oh, go on, I bet you say that to all your wives.
Nick Arden: Yes I know your Honor, but I'm out on bail...
Judge Walter Bryson: I don't care anything about the bail. This is a Civil Court. What kind of a lawyer are you? Where'd you go to school?
Nick Arden: Harvard.
Judge Walter Bryson: Un huh. I'm a Yale man myself. Are you the bride?
Bianca: Yes, your Honor.
Judge Walter Bryson: Humm, Kissless?
Bianca: Yes, your Honor.
Judge Walter Bryson: Harvard man!
Bianca: I'm very sorry.
Judge Walter Bryson: Humph. Oughta wash her face instead of paint it! You know that there's such a thing as contempt of court, you know that don't you? Don't let me get after you!