Wives and Lovers (1963)
1h 44m
Running Time
August 29, 1963Release Date
Wives and Lovers (1963)
1h 44m
Running Time
August 29, 1963Release Date
Plot.
Husband and wife Bill and Bertie Austin and their daughter live in a low-rent apartment. He's a struggling writer, at least until agent Lucinda Ford breaks the news that she's sold his book to a publisher, including the rights to turn it into a Broadway play. A new house in Connecticut is the first way to celebrate. But during the long hours Bill is away working on the play, Bertie befriends hard-drinking neighbor Fran Cabrell and her boyfriend Wylie, who plant seeds of suspicion in Bertie's mind that Bill and his beautiful agent might be more than just business partners. Bertie jealously retaliates by flirting with Gar Aldrich, an actor who will be in her husband's play. Bill goes to Connecticut for a heart-to-heart talk, finds Gar there and punches him.
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Cast & Crew.
Janet Leigh
Bertie Austin
Van Johnson
Bill Austin
Shelley Winters
Fran Cabrell
Martha Hyer
Lucinda Ford
Ray Walston
Wylie Driberg
Jeremy Slate
Gar Aldrich
John Rich
Director
Claire Wilcox
Julie Austin
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Wives and Lovers is a 1963 comedy film based on the play The First Wife by Jay Presson Allen. Directed by John Rich, it stars Janet Leigh, Van Johnson, Shelley Winters and Martha Hyer. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1964 for costume design.