Cary Grant-Irene Dunne Comedy At State

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23224, 10 January 1941, Page 3

Cary Grant-Irene Dunne Comedy At State

Judging from past films, where Irene Dunne and Cary Grant are co-starred, the result is hilarious comedy, and in “My Favourite Wife,” opening at the State to : day, the comedy is excellent. This is a modern, highly amusing, definitely unusual story of a wife who returns home after being left, shipwrecked, for seven years on a tropical island, to find that on the very day of her return, her husband ’has had her .declared legally dead, and remarried. She goes to the honeymoon hotel, reveals herself to her husband, who realises that he still loves her, but cannot find sufficient courage to tell his second wife.

The honeymoon is broken up, but not before the husband has found out that his first wife’s sole companion on the island was a virile and highly personable young scientist. Events happen all too quickly, but in a screaming finish, which is far too good to tell, the husband and his first wife are finally reunited. With Cary Grant as the husband, Irene Dunne as his first wife, Gail Patrick as his second wife, and Randolph Scott as the personable scientist, the fun follows thick and fast. Produced by the same man who gave you “The Awful Truth," ‘‘My Favourite Wife’’ stands out as the comedy hit of the year.