Are Husbands Necessary? (1942)
1h 19m
Running Time
June 15, 1942Release Date
Are Husbands Necessary? (1942)
1h 19m
Running Time
June 15, 1942Release Date
Plot.
George and Mary Elizabeth Cugat are about to celebrate their second wedding anniversary and dream of having a child. Although they live comfortably on George's earnings as a bank official, Liz's scatterbrained handling of their finances constantly puts them in jeopardy. Liz becomes jealous when George's former girl friend, Myra Ponsonby, comes for a visit with his party-loving friends Bill Stone, Cory Cartwright and Chuck, an artist, after which George spends the entire evening dancing at a nightclub with Myra.
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Cast & Crew.
Ray Milland
George Cugat
Betty Field
Mary Elizabeth Cugat
Patricia Morison
Myra Ponsonby
Eugene Pallette
Bunker
Charles Dingle
Duncan Atterbury
Leif Erickson
Bill Stone
Elisabeth Risdon
Mrs. Westwood
Richard Haydn
Chuck
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 15, 1942
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 19m
Content RatingNR
Budget$552,000
Box Office$1,050,000
Genres
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Wiki.
Are Husbands Necessary? is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Ray Milland and Betty Field. It follows the misadventures of a wacky wife and her sometimes exasperated, but loving, banker husband. The film's screenplay was adapted by the husband-and-wife writing team of Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis, from the novel Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage by Isabel Scott Rorick. This novel would later be a source for the related 1948 radio series My Favorite Husband starring Lucille Ball, which itself would evolve into the television series I Love Lucy.
A one-hour Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film, featuring George Burns and Gracie Allen, aired February 15, 1943, on CBS Radio.