Too Many Husbands(a.k.a. "My Two Husbands" -- UK)
US (1940): Romance/Comedy
Wesley Ruggles directs this Columbia adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's play, Home and Beauty. Unintentional bigamy must have tickled the funnybone in classic Hollywood because the mistakenly-deceased-spouse routine shows up again and again. This is one of the best trots around the block for the old wheeze as Jean Arthur believes her husband Fred MacMurray to have perished in a shipwreck. She finds solace with Melvyn Douglas, but when MacMurray turns up alive, healthy and quite handsome, Arthur's in a delightful pickle as the center of attention. The men become friends and sort things out themselves. The leads make this worthwhile. Remade as Three for the Show in 1955 with Betty Grable. (amctv.com)
1 nomination
· Sound Recording 1940: John P. Livadary