An Ideal Husband (1947 film)

An Ideal Husband
Original French film poster
Directed byAlexander Korda
Screenplay byLajos Bíró
Based onAn Ideal Husband
1895 play
by Oscar Wilde
Produced byAlexander Korda
StarringPaulette Goddard
Michael Wilding
Diana Wynyard
CinematographyGeorges Périnal
Edited byOswald Hafenrichter
Music byArthur Benjamin
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byBritish Lion Films Corporation
(UK)
20th Century Fox
(US)
Release dates
  • 13 November 1947 (1947-11-13) (London)
  • 14 November 1947 (1947-11-14) (United Kingdom)
  • 14 January 1948 (1948-01-14) (New York City)
  • February 1948 (1948-02) (United Kingdom)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£506,000[1][2][3]
Box office£241,994 (UK)[4] or £206,637 (worldwide)[3]

An Ideal Husband, also known as Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, is a 1947 British comedy film adaptation of the 1895 play by Oscar Wilde. It was made by London Film Productions and distributed by British Lion Films (UK) and Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (USA). It was produced and directed by Alexander Korda from a screenplay by Lajos Bíró from Wilde's play. The music score was by Arthur Benjamin, the cinematography by Georges Périnal, the editing by Oswald Hafenrichter and the costume design by Cecil Beaton. This was Korda's last completed film as a director, although he continued producing films into the next decade.[5]

The film stars Paulette Goddard, Michael Wilding, Diana Wynyard, Hugh Williams, C. Aubrey Smith, Glynis Johns and Constance Collier.

  1. ^ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 354
  2. ^ "REFUSE TO WORK WITH ALIEN". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 27 March 1947. p. 4. Retrieved 7 July 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ a b Harper, Sue; Porter, Vincent (2003). British Cinema of The 1950s The Decline of Deference. Oxford University Press USA. p. 275.
  4. ^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p484
  5. ^ "Alexander Korda: Filmography". IMDb. Retrieved 16 January 2021.