My Favorite Wife(1940)
The funniest, fastest honeymoon ever screened!
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.
Movie: My Favorite Wife
Top 10 Billed Cast
Ellen Wagstaff Arden
Nick Arden
Bianca Bates
Steve Burkett
Ma
Tim Arden
Hotel Clerk
Johnson
Judge Walter Bryson
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