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Silver Screen Standards: My Favorite Wife (1940)

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 14, 2024

My Favorite Wife (1940) I’ve shown a lot of comedies to my lifetime learners over the years, but I’ve rarely heard an audience laugh as uproariously as they did during a recent screening of My Favorite Wife (1940), which we watched as part of a series featuring Cary Grant. The peals of laughter read more

Classic Films in Focus: MY FAVORITE WIFE (1940)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 2, 2018

My Favorite Wife (1940) reunites stars Irene Dunne and Cary Grant after their first pairing as a comedic couple in The Awful Truth (1937), and once again there's both love and trouble. Grant plays a husband flummoxed by the return of his supposedly dead first wife on the very day that he marries his read more

Classic Films in Focus: MY FAVORITE WIFE (1940)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 2, 2018

My Favorite Wife (1940) reunites stars Irene Dunne and Cary Grant after their first pairing as a comedic couple in The Awful Truth (1937), and once again there's both love and trouble. Grant plays a husband flummoxed by the return of his supposedly dead first wife on the very day that he marries his read more

The Cary Grant Blogathon: My Favorite Wife (1940)

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Annmarie Gatti on Dec 1, 2016

“Make up your mind old man. You’re not allowed to have two wives, you know”… Like many Classic Movie fans, I just adore Cary Grant — and I just adore about every film that he ever made in his 30+ year film career. He can play anything from suave, sophisticated and sexy — to befuddled, read more

My Favorite Wife (1940)

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 7, 2015

This is a film that I arrived at by a rather roundabout route indeed. Let me explain. I genuinely loved Cary Grant and Irene Dunne’s chemistry in The Awful Truth, but I wanted to watch My Favorite Wife before moving onto their final film together Penny Serenade. Time passed and I found two oth read more

My Favorite Wife (1940)

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 7, 2015

This is a film that I arrived at by a rather roundabout route indeed. Let me explain. I genuinely loved Cary Grant and Irene Dunne’s chemistry in The Awful Truth, but I wanted to watch My Favorite Wife before moving onto their final film together Penny Serenade. Time passed and I found two oth read more

My Favorite Wife (1940) (2)

Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Jul 8, 2013

We’ve discussed My Favorite Wife before, and by that I mean the remake that was to be made starring Marilyn Monroe entitled Something’s Gotta Give.  Unfortunately, that movie never came to fruition, but there was a remake of this in 1963 with Doris Day (which I’ve never seen).  My read more

My Favorite Wife (1940) (1)

Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jan 28, 2012

We’ve discussed My Favorite Wife before, and by that I mean the remake that was to be made entitled Something’s Gotta Give and starring Marilyn Monroe.  Unfortunately, that movie never came to fruition but there was a remake of this film in 1963 with Doris Day (which I’ve never see read more

My Favorite Wife (1940).

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Jan 2, 2011

My Favorite Wife(1940). Comedy produced and co-written by Leo McCarey and directed by Garson Kanin. Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott and Gail Patrick. The story is an adaptation of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Enoch Arden"; in tribute, the main characters' last name is Arden. read more