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STATE THEATRE

".MY FAVOURITE WIFE." "My Favourite Wife." which will b< shown tonight brings back Ireni Dunne and Cary Grant to the screei in a gay sophisticated romantic coni' edy in which these Hollywood lumin arics hit a stride which should earn them to top comedy awards for the year. A large share of their success ir this breezy film is due to the hilarious story which was especially designed for the stars' talents by Bella and Samuel Spewack. Miss Dunne is cast as a wife presumably lost at sea whose husband. Cary Grant, has her declared le'gally dead after seven years' . absence and then marries Gail Patrick. Thu newlyweds no sooner depart on their honeymoon than the first wife returns, very much alive. She was rescued from an unchartered Pacific Island on which she had been marooned all these years with Randolph Scott, portraying a handsome scientist. She overtakes the honeymooners at a Yosemite hotel, and presents herself io her startled husband. Unable to blurt out the truth of his bride. Grant tries to keep his first wife hidden —with some j hilarious and disastrous complications. Now starts a mad pace which is heightened until the uproarious climax. The kissless bride and her distraught husband flee home only to find Miss Dunne awaiting them and posing as an old friend of the family. And soon after the double-groom learns that his. first wife and the virile explorer were: alone on that island for seven years! j Contributing lavishly to the laughs are Gai! Patrick as the bride who can'll comprehend her husband's sudden aloofness and Randolph .Scott, whqse desire to marry Grant's first wife afi ter being stranded with her for seven ■ ■ years aggravates the burden the jea-| Hous husband is already carrying. In I other fine performances are Ann Shoe-, ! maker. Donald Macßridc. Granville j J Bates, and two youngsters. Scotty B<-c-| ; Lett and Mary Lou Harrington, who | ! portray the Dunne-Grant children. ■ j

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1941, Page 2

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325

STATE THEATRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1941, Page 2

STATE THEATRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1941, Page 2

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