"MY FAVOURITE WIFE"

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 November 1940, Page 11

"MY FAVOURITE WIFE"

\ i Re-united for the first time since their appearance in the memorable comedy hit, “The Awful Truth.” Irene i Dunne and Cary Grant are co-starred in “My Favourite Wife.” The reunion j also includes Leo McCarey. produceri director of “The Awful Truth,” who guided the current production for RKO j Radio. Garson Kanin, responsible for ! “Bachelor Mother,” “The Great Man j Votes,” and "A Man to Remember,” i directed with Randolph Scott and Gail J Patrick heading a notable supporting I cast. | “My Favourite Wife,” penned by Bella and Samuel Spewack. authors of • ‘Boy ~r,oar 411 I

' After seven years Grant has her declared legally dead and marries Gail Patrick. Unfortunately, Irene is very much alive, and is rescued from the desert island with Scott, a handsome scientist with whom she has been marooned alone all this time. She arrives home on the very night her husband eml barks on his second honeymoon. Chartering a plane, she overtake# the newlyweds. After she flabbergast# Grant with her appearance. "My Favourite Wife” attains dizzying height# of hilarity. Irene tries to outwit Gail , i for the love of her husband. Grant

Wires,” is described as a breezy, laugh- grows franctic in his efforts to tell hi# laden, sophisticated comedy. bride the startling truth of Irene’s re* Miss Dunne, cast as Grant’s wife, turn. Gail can’t understand her disappears when a scientific expedi- groom’s sudden coolness. And then tion for which she is the photographer Grant learns of Irene s island mate, is shipwrecked in the South Seas. Scott, who now wants to marry Irene.