Thursday, January 29, 2015

My Favorite Wife (1940)


Academy Awards, USA 1941

Nominated
Oscar
Best Writing, Original Story
Leo McCarey
Bella Spewack
Sam Spewack
Best Art Direction, Black-and-White
Van Nest Polglase
Mark-Lee Kirk
Best Music, Original Score
Roy Webb

RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by Garson Kanin
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

Cary Grant remarries after assuming his wife died in a shipwreck. She reappears, and they spend the rest of the movie trying to figure out how to get back together. Randolph Scott complicates matters as the man she spent seven years with on a desert island, calling each other Adam and Eve. Far-fetched plot milked for all it's worth is worth seems barely fills the 88 minute running time. Irene Dunne is as pleasant as usual, but Grant comes off as a bit of a heel, and that ending...

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