Too Many Husbands

Too Many Husbands
1940 Theatrical Poster
Directed by	Wesley Ruggles
Written by	W. Somerset Maugham (play, Home and Beauty, 1923) Claude Binyon
Starring	Jean Arthur Fred MacMurray Melvyn Douglas
Release date(s)	March 21, 1940 (1940-03-21)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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Too Many Husbands (released in the United Kingdom as My Two Husbands) is a 1940 romantic comedy film about a woman who loses her husband (Cardew) in a boating accident and remarries, only to have her first spouse reappear. The film stars Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas, and is based on the 1919 play "Home and Beauty" by W. Somerset Maugham. The movie was directed by Wesley Ruggles.

John P. Livadary was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording.

Cast

• Jean Arthur as Vicky Lowndes
• Fred MacMurray as Bill Cardew
• Melvyn Douglas as Henry Lowndes
• Harry Davenport as George
• Dorothy Peterson as Gertrude Houlihan
• Melville Cooper as Peter
• Edgar Buchanan as Detective Adolph McDermott
• Tom Dugan as Lieutenant Sullivan

See also

• My Favorite Wife (1940) is a film released less than two months later with a similar plot, but with the sexes reversed, with Cary Grant losing his first wife (Irene Dunne) in a boating accident and remarrying after seven years, only to find his first wife re-appear just as he's getting ready for his honeymoon night. The film was remade decades later as Move Over, Darling with Doris Day and James Garner after an earlier version, directed by George Cukor with Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin called Something's Got to Give, had been stopped midway through filming due to production problems.

External links

• Too Many Husbands at the Internet Movie Database
• Too Many Husbands at AllRovi
• Too Many Husbands at the TCM Movie Database