The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
- Starring:
- Loretta Young, Ray Milland, (more)
- Director(s):
- Alexander Hall, Alexander Hall, (more
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Fiercely independent authoress June Cameron (Loretta Young) has no time for men in her life. Chauvinistic medical college professor Timothy Sterling (Ray Milland) has no use for women. So guess who is mistaken for June's husband, and guess who is forced by circumstances to pretend that she's married? The Doctor Takes a Wife maintains its exhausting comic pace until about five minutes before the end, when the scriptwriters are forced to take a breather to tie up all the loose plot ends. The "fantasy" closing gag went over so well that Columbia Pictures utilized variations of it in several subsequent screwball comedies. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Loretta Young - June Cameron
- Reginald Gardiner - John Pierce
- Edmund Gwenn - Dr. Lionel Sterling
- Gordon Jones - O'Brien
- Charles Halton - Dr. Streeter
- Paul McAllister - Dean Lawton
- Hal K. Dawson - Charlie
- John Wray - Farmer
- Dorothy Appleby - Woman
- Edward Gargan - Doorman
- Frank Orth - New York Editor
- Ian MacLaren - Professor
- Olin Howland - Hotel Clerk
- Wesley Giraud - Western Union Boy
- Ann Lee - Maid
- Catherine Courtney
- Charles Lane - Reporter
- Helen Ainsworth - Amazon
- Gertrude Sutton - Mabel
- Edward Earle
- Frank Darien - Greenwich Editor
- Don Beddoe
- Spencer Charters - Mr. Quinn
- Ray Milland - Dr. Timothy Sterling
- Gail Patrick - Marilyn Thomas
- Frank Sully - Slapcovitch
- George Metaxa - Jean Rovere
- Joseph Eggenton - Dr. Nielsen
- Chester Clute - Johnson
- Dorothy Ann Seese
- Erville Alderson - Harrison
- Edgar Dearing - Motor Cop
- Renie Riano - Telegraph Operator
- Myra Marsh - Lydia Johnson
- Jane Keckley - Mrs. Quinn
- Mary Gordon - Scrubwoman
- Sumner Getchell - Man
- Jane Goude - Mrs. Nielson
- Charlotte Treadway
- William Austin - Hotel Manager
- Edward Van Sloan - Burkhardt
- Virginia Sale - School Teacher
- Vernon Dent
- Irving Bacon - Gas Station Attendant
- Edgar Buchanan - Doorman
- Director(s):
- Alexander Hall, Alexander Hall
- Writer(s):
- George Seaton, Ken Englund
- Producer(s):
- William Perlberg
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