Too Many Husbands (1940)
April 3, 1940Release Date
Too Many Husbands (1940)
April 3, 1940Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Fred MacMurray
Bill Cardew
Jean Arthur
Vicky Lowndes
Melvyn Douglas
Henry Lowndes
Dorothy Peterson
Gertrude Houlihan
Melville Cooper
Peter
Edgar Buchanan
McDermott
Tom Dugan
Sullivan
Harry Davenport
George
Thomas J. Dugan
Sullivan
William Brisbane
Lawyer
James Conaty
Nightclub Patron
Carl M. Leviness
Passenger at Airport
Sam McDaniel
Porter
Frank McLure
Nightclub Patron
James Millican
Nightclub Patron
Larry Steers
Nightclub Patron
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Too Many Husbands (released in the United Kingdom as My Two Husbands) is a 1940 American romantic comedy film about a woman who loses her husband in a boating accident and remarries, only to have her first spouse reappear—yet another variation on the 1864 poem Enoch Arden by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The film stars Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas, and is based on the 1919 play Home and Beauty by W. Somerset Maugham, which was retitled Too Many Husbands when it came to New York. The film was directed by Wesley Ruggles.
A couple of months after Too Many Husbands was released by Columbia, RKO put out a movie that was more popular both then and now, My Favorite Wife, a variation on the story with Cary Grant as the remarried spouse whose former wife Irene Dunne returns from sea. Too Many Husbands was remade as a musical, Three for the Show (1955), with Jack Lemmon and Betty Grable. My Favorite Wife came back yet again as Move Over, Darling (1963), with Doris Day and James Garner after an uncompleted 1962 version entitled Something's Got to Give starring Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin was aborted upon Monroe's abrupt death.