Too Many Husbands

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Too Many Husbands is a 1940 American screwball comedy film, based on a play, about a woman whose life is upended when her presumed-dead husband returns to find she has remarried.

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instanceOf film
screwball comedy film
basedOn Home Is the Hero (play)
a stage play
castMember Dorothy Peterson
Fred MacMurray
Harry Davenport
Jean Arthur
Melvyn Douglas
Meville Cooper
linked to: Melville Cooper
cinematographyBy Leo Tover
countryOfOrigin United States
director Wesley Ruggles
distributor Columbia Pictures
editedBy Gene Havlick
filmEra Golden Age of Hollywood
format black-and-white
genre comedy film
screwball comedy
hasTheme identity and legal status in marriage
marriage
romantic rivalry
mainCharacter Bill Cardew
Henry Lowndes
Vicky Lowndes
medium theatrical film
musicBy Benjamin Frankel
narrativeDevice presumed-dead spouse returns
narrativeFocus love triangle
originalLanguage English
plotSummary A woman whose husband was presumed dead remarries, only for her first husband to return alive, creating a romantic and legal dilemma.
producer William Perlberg
productionCompany Columbia Pictures
releaseDate 1940-03-15
releaseYear 1940
runtimeMinutes 81
screenwriter Claude Binyon
setting United States
targetAudience general audience

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Fred MacMurray notableWork Too Many Husbands