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My Favorite Wife (1940) is a classic screwball comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Cary Grant and Irene Dunne play a couple handed an impossible bit of timing.
Nick has finally had his wife Ellen declared dead after a shipwreck, so he remarries — on the very day the real Ellen walks back through the door. Seven years stranded on an island. And not alone, as it happens: a fellow castaway, fit and far too charming, was there the whole time. Now Nick has to explain all of that to his brand-new bride.
Garson Kanin directs, with Leo McCarey shaping the story a year after pairing these same two leads in The Awful Truth. Grant does what he does best here — the impeccable gentleman whom comedy backs steadily into a corner. A breezy 88 minutes of screwball nonsense where nobody is the villain; the trouble is that everyone still loves everyone. Stream My Favorite Wife (1940) online on iFILM.
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