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) NERFINISHED
a stage play
castMember Dorothy Peterson NERFINISHED
Fred MacMurray NERFINISHED
Harry Davenport NERFINISHED
Jean Arthur NERFINISHED
Melvyn Douglas NERFINISHED
Meville Cooper NERFINISHED
cinematographyBy Leo Tover NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Wesley Ruggles NERFINISHED
distributor Columbia Pictures
editedBy Gene Havlick NERFINISHED
filmEra Golden Age of Hollywood NERFINISHED
format black-and-white
genre comedy film
screwball comedy
hasTheme identity and legal status in marriage
marriage
romantic rivalry
mainCharacter Bill Cardew NERFINISHED
Henry Lowndes NERFINISHED
Vicky Lowndes NERFINISHED
medium theatrical film
musicBy Benjamin Frankel NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
productionCompany Columbia Pictures
releaseDate 1940-03-15
releaseYear 1940
runtimeMinutes 81
screenwriter Claude Binyon NERFINISHED
setting United States of America
surface form: United States
targetAudience general audience

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Fred MacMurray notableWork Too Many Husbands