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The funniest, fastest honeymoon ever screened! - My Favorite Wife
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Title: My Favorite Wife

Release Date: 17 May 1940

Runtime: 1h 28m

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Director: RKO Radio Pictures

Production Companies: RKO Radio Pictures

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.

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Average Vote: 6.9 (155 votes)

Cast

  • Ellen Wagstaff Arden: Irene Dunne
  • Nick Arden: Cary Grant
  • Bianca Bates: Gail Patrick
  • Steve Burkett: Randolph Scott
  • Ma: Ann Shoemaker
  • Tim Arden: Scotty Beckett
  • Chinch Arden: Mary Lou Harrington
  • Hotel Clerk: Donald MacBride
  • Johnson: Hugh O'Connell
  • Judge Walter Bryson: Granville Bates
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