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DVD My Favorite Wife
That delightful couple from The Awful Truth, Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, revisit the world of marital confusion. Presuming his wife to be dead, Grant remarries--on the same day that his bedraggled spouse (that's Dunne) returns. Seems she's been stranded on a desert island for seven years (with strapping hunk Randolph Scott, too). The moment Cary spots his resurrected wife, as an elevator door slides shut, is one of the many funny gags in this comedy, and the final sequence is memorably wacky. Awful Truth director Leo McCarey prepared the film, but it was directed by author Garson Kanin. The two stars are so adept at farce, and so effortless in conveying their characters' mutual affection, that the movie triumphs over the whopper of a plot device. It was supposed to be remade as the ill-fated Marilyn Monroe film Something's Got to Give, and ended up Move Over, Darling with Doris Day. --Robert Horton
My Favorite Wife was a lot of fun. Cary Grant and Irene Dunne have amazing chemistry in this outrageously funny screwball comedy.
Seven years have passed since a lawyer's wife was lost at sea. In that time he's found someone else and wants to get remarried. On the day he files papers to declare her legally dead she returns to prove herself alive and get on with her life. She heads out to the hotel where he's staying for his honeymoon and a series of hilarious shenanigans ensue.
Despite this, they try to make efforts to reconcile the relationship. As not to rattle the new wife The old one poses as a southern family friend. When the lawyer learns the man she was shipwrecked with is a real He-man, (I'm going out on a limb here using what I think is 40's slang) He thinks there was something going on between them over those seven years. The movie reaches a hilarious climax in the courtroom and concludes with Grant and Dunne getting back together.
My Favorite Wife is great even though it's clunky in some places (I read the director was sick and somebody had to sub for him That would explain the differences in the style for certain scenes.) What keeps the movie solid is Cary Grant's chemistry with Irene Dunne. The two of them give great performances feeling like an old married couple that knows each other very well.
My Favorite Wife is definitely worth a buy if not rental. It put a smile on my face. Let it put a smile on yours.
It is like trying to make your puppy dying funny...it just isn't.
Perhaps I am too much of a romantic but the loss of your wife and her sudden return on the day you marry someone else....is perfectly sad. I couldn't get past that part. It is horrible and breaking peoples hearts is also not funny. The Philadelphia Story or Bringing up Baby are far better choices.
A Superb Classic Movie!
My favorite Wife is a superb movie and Cary Grant and Irene Dunne are wonderful. Irene Dunne plays a woman named Ellen Arden who was presumed dead after an accident at sea. It's seven years later and her husband Nick played by Cary Grant has her legally declared dead and then he gets married to Bianca who is a snobby and bitchy high society woman who is very whiney and annoying but unbeknownst to him first wife Ellen has been rescued from an Island where she and another man have been marooned for the past seven years and she has just shown up at their house sees their children who were babies when she disappeared and finds out from his mother that he has just gotten remarried to a woman she is not to fond of, and since Ellen isn't really dead she sets out to let her husband know that she is alive and that they belong together and there are a lot more interesting twists in the plot too that make it even funnier. The movie was remade in the 1960's as Move Over Darling, starring James Garner and Doris Day and I think it's a good movie but not as good or as sophisticated as the original
One of the top five screwball comedies of the '30s, this helped to cement a genre that waxed golden until the end of WWII. Director Leo McCarey won an Oscar for Best Director for this 1937 romantic comedy--one of the most successful films of his career. Irene Dunne and Cary Grant are a squabbling couple who separate because of supposed infidelities on both sides. They part but cannot really keep away from each other. Grant finds himself hooked up with a socialite, Dunne becomes engaged to a millionaire hick played by the hapless Ralph Bellamy (as if he ever stood a chance as the "other" man!). When not dating others or baiting one another in a verbal war, Grant and Dunne wage a custody battle over their pathetic pooch. Gags, double entendre, witty remarks, snide comments, and fast-paced... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Irene Dunne - Cary Grant Director(s): Leo McCarey DVD Release Date: Released the 11 March 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Cary Grant stars as an advertising executive who dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems. (See the 1980s Tom Hanks comedy The Money Pit for an updated version of the same idea.) The big appeal here are the two leads, Grant and Myrna Loy, who were each in their early 40s and at the peak of their careers. Together with solid support from Melvyn Douglas and a screenplay that might have been tailor-made for their polished brand of comedy, the stars dominate this simple project. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Director(s): H.C. Potter - Tex Avery DVD Release Date: Released the 01 June 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Recreating the role she originated in Philip Barry's wickedly witty Broadway play, Katharine Hepburn stars as the spoiled and snobby socialite Tracy Lord in this sparkling 1940 screen adaptation of The Philadelphia Story, one of the great romantic comedies from the golden age of MGM studios. Applying her impossibly high ideals to everyone but herself, Tracy is about to marry a stuffy executive when her congenial ex-husband (Cary Grant), arrives to protect his former father-in-law from a potentially scandalous tabloid exposé. In an Oscar-winning role, James Stewart is the scandal reporter who falls for Tracy as her wedding day arrives, throwing her into a dizzying state of premarital jitters. Who will join Tracy at the altar? Snappy dialogue flows like sparkling wine under... More Info about this DVD Director(s): George Cukor DVD Release Date: Released the 02 May 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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"You remind me of a man." "What man?" "The man with the power...." Ah, so you remember the lovely nonsense of The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. This lighter-than-air comedy puts playboy writer Cary Grant in company with 17-year-old schoolgirl Shirley Temple, although he's more interested in older sister Myrna Loy. (She's as sober as a judge, and indeed is one.) The Oscar®- winning script by future bestselling novelist Sidney Sheldon boasts fun '40s slang, but the main draw is Grant's willingness to play the fool. His gift for slapstick shines when his aging bachelor decides to act like an inane teenager in an effort to burst Shirley's fanciful image of him. As usual, Grant seems to conspire with the audience (watch his double takes in the background) in making a... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Cary Grant - Myrna Loy - Shirley Temple Director(s): Irving Reis DVD Release Date: Released the 01 June 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The Front Page, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's classic 1928 newspaper play, has had three official film versions and contributed structural DNA to half the movies ever made about professional camaraderie and fierce love-hate friendships. Lewis Milestone's 1931 movie is well respected (Billy Wilder's 1974 version isn't), but this is one case where the remake towers brilliantined head and blocked shoulders above the original.
Howard Hawks had the inspired notion of making Hildy Johnson--the ace newsman whom demonic editor Walter Burns is trying to keep from quitting and getting married--a she instead of a he. What's more, she's not only Walter's star reporter but also his ex-wife. When Hildy (Rosalind Russell) comes to tell Walter (Cary Grant) she's leaving the newspaper... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Cary Grant - Rosalind Russell Director(s): Howard Hawks DVD Release Date: Released the 01 October 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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