Too Many Husbands (1940)
- Starring:
- Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, (more)
- Director(s):
- Wesley Ruggles
Synopsis of Too Many Husbands
The W. Somerset Maugham play Home and Beauty was successful Americanized as Too Many Husbands (British title: My Two Husbands). Led to believe that her husband Fred MacMurray has drowned in a shipwreck, socialite Jean Arthur marries Melvyn Douglas. In time-honored Enoch Arden fashion, MacMurray turns up alive. The rest of the film finds Jean's two husbands figuratively duking it out for her affections. For a Production Code-era film, Too Many Husbands is remarkably risque, with a delicious open-ended denouement. And besides, we get to see the matchless Jean Arthur do the rhumba! In 1955, Columbia trotted out this property once more, and the result was the musical comedy Three For The Show, starring Jack Lemmon and Marge & Gower Champion. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Too Many Husbands
- Jean Arthur - Vicky Lowndes
- Melvyn Douglas - Henry Lowndes
- Dorothy Peterson - Gertrude Houlihan
- Edgar Buchanan - McDermott
- Jerry Fletcher - Man
- Jacques Vanaire - Head Waiter
- Dave Willock - Elevator Operator
- Lee "Lasses" White - Mailman
- William Brisbane - Lawyer
- Fred MacMurray - Bill Cardew
- Harry Davenport - George
- Melville Cooper - Peter, the Butler
- Tom Dugan - Sullivan
- Walter Soderling - Customer
- Sam McDaniel - Porter
- Ralph Peters - Cab Driver
- Garry Owen - Sign Painter
- Mary Treen - Emma
- Director(s):
- Wesley Ruggles
- Writer(s):
- Claude Binyon
- Producer(s):
- Wesley Ruggles
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