Dream Wife (1953)
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48% want to see it
(1,031 ratings)
Clemson Reade (Cary Grant) is the kind of man who wants to marry an old-fashioned girl, one who will stay home and take care of her husband. However, he's fallen in love with Priscilla "Effie" Effington (Deborah Kerr), who has an exciting career with the State Department that she has… More Clemson Reade (Cary Grant) is the kind of man who wants to marry an old-fashioned girl, one who will stay home and take care of her husband. However, he's fallen in love with Priscilla "Effie" Effington (Deborah Kerr), who has an exciting career with the State Department that she has no intention of giving up. Clemson has the poor timing of proposing marriage to Effie just as she's in the middle of trying to resolve a major political crisis with the Middle Eastern nation of Bukistan; the United States wants to stay on Bukistan's good side, thanks to their plentiful reserves of oil. Tired of waiting for Effie, Clemson decides that he needs to find a potential bride who will follow his lead instead of her own, and he soon meets Princess Tarji (Betta Saint John), daughter of the King of Bukistan, who has spent her life learning to faithfully serve her man. Clemson half-seriously sends a telegram proposing marriage to Tarji, which touches off a political tempest in a teapot when Tarji responds by visiting the United States. The State Department decides that someone should look after Tarji while she's in America, and who should be given the assignment but Effie; to Clemson's chagrin, Effie uses her time with Tarji to enlighten her about the more liberated status of women in the West. By the way, don't bother looking for Bukistan in your atlas, the country doesn't really exist. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Sidney Sheldon
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- Studio
- Warner Bros
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Flat sex farce.
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Cast
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Cary Grant
as Clemson Reade
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Deborah Kerr
as Priscilla "Effie" Effington
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Walter Pidgeon
as Walter McBride
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Betta St John
as Tarji
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Eduard Franz
as Khan
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Buddy Baer
as Vizier
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Don Randolph
as Ali
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Bruce Bennett
as Charlie Elkwood
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Richard Anderson
as Henry Malvine
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Dan Tobin
as Mr. Brown
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Movita
as Rima
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Gloria Holden
as Mrs. Landwell
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June Clayworth
as Mrs. Elkwood
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Dean Miller
as George
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Steve Forrest
as Louis
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Jonathan Cott
as Marine
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Patricia Tiernan
as Pat
- John Alvin
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Jean Andren
as Bit
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Dan Barton
as Sailor
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Faire Binney
as Mrs. Parker
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Lynne Marie Brown
as Miss Temple
- Steve Carruthers
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Edward Cassidy
as Customs Official
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Maria [Movita] Castaneda
as Rima
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Jack Chefe
as Captain
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Lillian Culver
as Woman at Airport
- Donald Dillaway
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Kathleen Freeman
as Chambermaid
- Bernie Gozier
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Dabbs Greer
as Elevator Boy
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Aram Katcher
as Bukistanian/Messenger
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Mary Lawrence
as Mrs. Malvine
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Alphonse Martell
as Headwaiter
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Bert Moorhouse
as Attlow
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Jimmy Moss
as Small Boy
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Virginia Mullen
as Annie
- Forbes Murray
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Robert Nichols
as Elevator Boy
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Dick Rich
as Delivery Man
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Vernon Rich
as McBride's Assistant
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Gordon Richards
as Sir Cecil
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Kay Riehl
as Woman
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Perry Sheehan
as Evelyn the Receptionist
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Charles Sullivan
as Truck Driver
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Les Tremayne
as Ken Landwell
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William Vedder
as Old Man
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Gayne Whitman
as Men at Airport
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Gail Bonney
as "Mommy"
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Jack George
as Clarence
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William Hamel
as Reporter
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Hassan Khayyam
as Bukistanian Priest
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Marjorie Liszt
as Woman Cab Driver
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Rudy Rama
as Servant
- Dorothy Kennedy
- Beryl McCutcheon
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Allen O'Locklin
as Clerk
- Jim Cronin
- William McCormick
- Harry Stanton
