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17 May 1940 (USA)
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The funniest, fastest honeymoon ever screened!
Plot:
Ellen Arden arrives 7 years after being given up for dead in a shipwreck, to find her husband Nick just remarried to Bianca...
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Nominated for 3 Oscars.
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(2 articles)
Scenes We Love: The Awful Truth
(From Cinematical. 9 August 2009, 4:03 PM, PDT)
Director Robert Wise Dies at 91
(From IMDb News. 15 September 2005)
(From Cinematical. 9 August 2009, 4:03 PM, PDT)
Director Robert Wise Dies at 91
(From IMDb News. 15 September 2005)
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Better than the remake
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Irene Dunne | ... | Ellen Arden |
 | Cary Grant | ... | Nick Arden |
 | Randolph Scott | ... | Steve Burkett |
 | Gail Patrick | ... | Bianca Bates |
| Ann Shoemaker | ... | Ellen's mother |
| Scotty Beckett | ... | Little Tim Arden |
| Mary Lou Harrington | ... | Little Chinch Arden |
| Donald MacBride | ... | Hotel Clerk |
| Hugh O'Connell | ... | Johnson - insurance investigator |
| Granville Bates | ... | Judge Bryson |
| Pedro de Cordoba | ... | Dr. Kohlmar - psychiatrist |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Joseph E. Bernard | ... | Reporter (scenes deleted) |
| Frank Ellis | ... | (scenes deleted) |
| Edward Emerson | ... | Reporter (scenes deleted) |
| Bruce MacFarlane | ... | Reporter (scenes deleted) |
| Frank Marlowe | ... | Photographer (scenes deleted) |
| Cyril Ring | ... | Contestant (scenes deleted) |
| Brandon Tynan | ... | Dr. Manning (scenes deleted) |
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88 min | Germany:75 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Victor System)
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Leo McCarey was supposed to direct the film, but shortly before the filming began he was injured in an automobile accident, and had to hand over the direction to Garson Kanin.
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Errors in geography: The judge mentioned that Ellen was shipwrecked off the coast of Indochina. Nick mentioned that he went to Bangkok to interview survivors which makes sense if the shipwreck happened near Indochina. However, Ellen mentioned that she was located at Latitude 12, Longitude 128 which is 200 miles east of the Philippines and more than 1000 miles away from the closest part of the Indochina peninsula (which would be Vietnam). The nearest large city to that location would be Manila and not Bangkok.
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Quotes:
Nick Arden:
Impulsive? He's full of carrots!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Move Over, Darling (1963)
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Soundtrack:
The Skaters Waltz (Les patineurs)
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I agree that Move Over Darling is a very good remake of My Favorite Wife, but Doris Day and James Garner, much as I like them, cannot reach the level of sophistication of Grant/Dunne. Randolph Scott does nothing to detract from the picture. Certainly no more than Chuck Connors does in the same role in Move Over Darling. The courtroom scenes with Grant and Granville Bates as the judge are superior, and Donald McBride as the hotel clerk is exceptional. Cary Grant's facial expression on the elevator when he first sees Dunne after 7 years is so memorable that I can still remember it 35 years after first seeing it. If you are a Grant fan, you have to see this movie.