Too Many Husbands (1940)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.4/10   

Director:

Wesley Ruggles

Escritores:

W. Somerset Maugham (play)
Claude Binyon (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

21 marzo 1940 (USA)

Género:

Comedia

Plot:

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky re-married... and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

Plot Keywords:

Butler | Romantic Rivalry | Editor | Nightclub | Snoring

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar.

Comentarios de los usuarios:

surprisingly sprightly

Reparto

Jean Arthur	...	Vicky Lowndes
Fred MacMurray	...	Bill Cardew
Melvyn Douglas	...	Henry Lowndes
Harry Davenport	...	George
Dorothy Peterson	...	Gertrude Houlihan
Melville Cooper	...	Peter - the Butler
Edgar Buchanan	...	Detective Adolph McDermott
Tom Dugan	...	Lieutenant Sullivan

También conocida como:

My Two Husbands (UK)
Demasiados maridos (Spain) [es]

Duración:

81 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Clasificación:

UK:A | USA:Approved (PCA #6036) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Compañía:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivialidades:

Mary Treen (Emma), Garry Owen (Sign Painter) and Lee 'Lasses' White (Mailman) were listed as cast members for their roles in Hollywood Reporter pre-release news items and production charts, but they were not seen in the movie. A modern source also lists Walter Soderling (Customer), Ralph Peters (Cab Driver) and Jerry Fletcher as cast members, but they too were not seen. The one cab driver in the movie was played by Billy Wayne.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in The Alchemist in Hollywood (1940)

Banda de Sonido:

Tyrolka

surprisingly sprightly

When I first heard the premise;a spouse declared dead comes back home after months alone on an island , only to find his beloved wife has re-entered marital bliss with his best friend, I thought 'it'll be interesting to see if they come anywhere near the brilliance of "My Favorite Wife"' And I also presumed this had to be a rather blatant rip-off of the Cary Grant-Irene Dunne classic released ,incidentally, in the same year. Boy was I wrong! For starters this appears to have been released months earlier and the screenplay,comic timing,and acting are easily in the same league as the best of the so-called 'screwball comedies'. When Jean Arthur is "on" there is no actress who can beat her and she looks about as good in this rarely shown film as she ever has . Fred MacMurry and Melvyn Douglas hold up their end, but the surprise, for me, was good old Harry Davenport who gets many lines , many chances to display bravado mugging and line readings, and never fails. This is a Jean Arthur film that needs immediate release on the DVD market!!