He Married His Wife

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He Married His Wife (1940)

01/19/1940 (US) 1h 23m

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Here's the season's happiest comedy hit! The fun's uproarious...the romance too frantic for words!

Overview

Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.

Roy Del Ruth

Director
Darrell Ware

Screenplay
Sam Hellman

Screenplay
John O'Hara

Screenplay
Lynn Starling

Screenplay
Erna Lazarus

Story
Scott Darling

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Top Billed Cast

Joel McCrea

T.H. Randall
Nancy Kelly

Valerie
Mary Boland

Ethel
Cesar Romero

Freddie
Roland Young

Bill Carter
Mary Healy

Doris
Lyle Talbot

Paul Hunter
Elisha Cook Jr.

Dicky Brown
Barnett Parker

Huggins
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This might have played out better had there not been a glaring inevitability to the denouement right from the start! Racehorse owner "Randall" (Joel McCrea) and ex-wife "Valerie" (Nancy Kelly) are having a dance when the cops show up and arrest him for non-payment of alimony. It's only a short term glitch, but sets the scene for a film that sees him desperate for her to marry again and get her hands out of his wallet! To that end he has the support of his lawyer "Carter" (Roland Young) and to be fair to "Valerie", she has no shortage of suitors. The more they try to fix her up, though, the more... read the rest.

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