| My Favorite Wife | |
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| Directed by | Garson Kanin |
| Screenplay by | Bella Spewack Samuel Spewack |
| Story by | Leo McCarey Bella Spewack Samuel Spewack |
| Produced by | Leo McCarey |
| Starring | Irene Dunne Cary Grant Randolph Scott Gail Patrick |
| Cinematography | Rudolph Maté |
| Edited by | Robert Wise |
| Music by | Roy Webb |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures (US) Mist Entertainment (UK) |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $921,000[1] |
| Box office | $2,057,000[1] |
My Favorite Wife, is a 1940 screwball comedy produced by Leo McCarey and directed by Garson Kanin.
The picture stars Irene Dunne as a woman who, after being shipwrecked on a tropical island for several years and declared legally dead, returns to her [former] husband (Cary Grant) and children.
The story is an adaptation of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1864 poem, "Enoch Arden". In tribute, the main characters' last name is Arden.
The supporting cast features Gail Patrick as the woman Arden has just married when his first wife returns, and Randolph Scott as the man with whom his wife was marooned. My Favorite Wife was RKO's second-biggest hit of 1940.