PLAZA THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 99, 23 October 1940, Page 12

PLAZA THEATRE.

"My Favourite Wife."

"My Favourite Wife," reuniting lovely Irene Dunne and ingratiating Cary Grant for the first time since their Academy Award winner, "The Awful Truth," which opens on Friday at the Plaza Theatre, is a photoplay entertainment which/ while vitally different in theme, has' the same potentialities as the former sophisticated success. A scintillating marital comedy, written especially for Miss. Dunne and Grant by Bella and Samuel Spewack, famous Broadway playwrights and screen writers, "My Favourite Wife" is a production by Leo McCarey, who brought Miss Dunne and Grant together in "The Awful Truth/ Under" his guidance, Garsou Kanin, responsible for , "Bachelor Mother," directed with a superb supporting cast headed by Randolph Scott and Gail Patrick. "My Favourite Wife" is accorded a streamlined treatment,of the familiar Enoch Ara'en plot, equipped with marital mix-ups and plot complications which- should develop the film into a ranking comedy success of the year. • Miss Dunne, missing for seven years, supposedly drowned in the Pacific^ is miraculously and quietly rescued, and returns home on the very day that her husband-has had her declared legally dead and is embarking on his second honeymoon with Gail Patrick. ■ Miss Dunne intercepts the newlyweds, sending home a flabbergasted Cary Grant" and his kissless bride. Returning, he learns that his first spouse, spent those, seven years alone with handsome Randolcb Scott on a desert isle! ■