Too Many Husbands (1940)
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The W. Somerset Maugham play Home and Beauty was successful Americanized as Too Many Husbands (British title: My Two Husbands). Led to believe that her husband Fred MacMurray has drowned in a shipwreck, socialite Jean Arthur marries Melvyn Douglas. In time-honored Enoch Arden fashion, MacMurray… More The W. Somerset Maugham play Home and Beauty was successful Americanized as Too Many Husbands (British title: My Two Husbands). Led to believe that her husband Fred MacMurray has drowned in a shipwreck, socialite Jean Arthur marries Melvyn Douglas. In time-honored Enoch Arden fashion, MacMurray turns up alive. The rest of the film finds Jean's two husbands figuratively duking it out for her affections. For a Production Code-era film, Too Many Husbands is remarkably risque, with a delicious open-ended denouement. And besides, we get to see the matchless Jean Arthur do the rhumba! In 1955, Columbia trotted out this property once more, and the result was the musical comedy Three For The Show, starring Jack Lemmon and Marge & Gower Champion. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Wesley Ruggles
- Genres
- Comedy
- In Theaters
- Mar 21, 1940 Wide
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Modest fluffy screwball comedy.
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Cast
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Jean Arthur
as Vicky Lowndes
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Fred MacMurray
as Bill Cardew
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Melvyn Douglas
as Henry Lowndes
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Harry Davenport
as George
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Dorothy Peterson
as Gertrude Houlihan
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Edgar Buchanan
as McDermott
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Melville Cooper
as Peter the Butler
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Tom Dugan
as Sullivan
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William Brisbane
as Lawyer
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Sam McDaniel
as Porter
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Garry Owen
as Sign Painter
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Ralph Peters
as Cab Driver
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Walter Soderling
as Customer
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Mary Treen
as Emma
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Lee "Lasses" White
as Mailman
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Dave Willock
as Elevator Operator
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Jerry Fletcher
as Man
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Jacques Vanaire
as Head Waiter