The read
Scores higher than 75% of the 246 1940s comedy movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 28m.
Synopsis
Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Metacritic63/100
176 audience votes
Key crew
- Garson KaninDirector
- Bella SpewackScreenplay
- Sam SpewackScreenplay
- Roy WebbOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Cary GrantNick Arden
- Irene DunneEllen Wagstaff Arden
- Randolph ScottSteve Burkett
- Gail PatrickBianca Bates
- Ann ShoemakerMa
- Scotty BeckettTim Arden
- Mary Lou HarringtonChinch Arden
- Donald MacBrideHotel Clerk
- Hugh O'ConnellJohnson
- Granville BatesJudge Walter Bryson
- Pedro de CordobaDr. Kohlmar
- Joe CabrillasPhillip (uncredited)
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Themes
jealousyjudgeshipwreckhoneymoonbigamyconfusionremarriagelos angeles, californiapresumed deadscrewball comedydeserted islandsecond marriage