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Director
  
Wesley Ruggles

Story by
  
W. Somerset Maugham

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Romance

Cinematography
  
Joseph Walker

Country
  
United States

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Release date
  
March 21, 1940 (1940-03-21)

Based on
  
Too Many Husbands 1919 play  by W. Somerset Maugham

Writer
  
Claude Binyon (screen play), W. Somerset Maugham (based upon the play by)

Cast
  
Fred MacMurray
(Bill Cardew),
Jean Arthur
(Vicky Lowndes),
Melvyn Douglas
(Henry Lowndes),
Dorothy Peterson
(Gertrude Houlihan),
Melville Cooper
(Peter),
Edgar Buchanan
(McDermott)

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Tagline
  
JUST MARRIED.......BUT TO WHOM?

Too Many Husbands (released in the United Kingdom as My Two Husbands) is a 1940 romantic comedy film about a woman who loses her husband in a boating accident and remarries, only to have her first spouse reappear—yet another variation on the 1864 poem Enoch Arden by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The film stars Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas, and is based on the 1919 play Home and Beauty by W. Somerset Maugham, which was retitled to Too Many Husbands when it came to New York. The movie was directed by Wesley Ruggles.

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In the 1864 Tennyson poem a sailor lost at sea who returns years later to find his wife remarried to his childhood friend. The original story 1911 film version with Linda Arvidson; 1914 version with Fay Davis and 1915 film version with Lillian Gish.

Too Many Husbands movie scenes

A couple of months after Too Many Husbands was released by Columbia, RKO put out a movie the same year that was more popular in its time and better remembered today, My Favorite Wife, a variation on the story with Cary Grant as the remarried spouse whose former wife Irene Dunne returns from sea. Too Many Husbands was remade as a musical, Three for the Show (1955), with Jack Lemmon and Betty Grable. My Favorite Wife came back yet again as Move Over, Darling (1963), with Doris Day and James Garner.

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Synopsis

Vicky Lowndes (Jean Arthur) loses her first husband, Bill Cardew (Fred MacMurray), in a boating accident in which he is presumed drowned. The lonely widow is comforted by Bill's best friend and publishing business partner Henry Lowndes (Melvyn Douglas). Six months later, she marries him. Six months after that, Bill shows up, after having been stranded on a uninhabited island and then rescued. Vicky has a tough choice to make.

Cast

  • Jean Arthur as Vicky Lowndes
  • Fred MacMurray as Bill Cardew
  • Melvyn Douglas as Henry Lowndes
  • Harry Davenport as George, Vicky's father
  • Dorothy Peterson as Gertrude Houlihan
  • Melville Cooper as Peter, the Lowndes' butler
  • Edgar Buchanan as Detective Adolph McDermott
  • Tom Dugan as Lieutenant Sullivan

    • Nomination

    John P. Livadary was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording.

    References

    Too Many Husbands Wikipedia
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