DEAR WIFE
(Paramount) [DFAR RUTH was a comedy about an American airman who corresponded all through the war with the wrong girl, but ended up by marrying the right one, her sister, to the despair of his mincing rival, who was played to perfection by Billy de Wolfe. William Holden was the airman, Joan Caulfield the girl, and Edward Arnold her long-suffering father. In Dear Wife the couple are, of course, married. Billy is still assistant vice-presi-dent at the bank, Ruth’s young sister (the cause of the eriginal trouble) is still going around from door to door with petitions, and father is "running for senator." This second chapter in their lives revolves around the fact that William Holden is a/so running for senator, and things are further complicated because the housing shortage forces him to hive with ‘his father-in-law. It is enjoyable comedy, though strenuously "homely," and not as funny as the original. The next picture in the series (if there is one) will, I imagine, be called Dear Baby. --- a
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 557, 24 February 1950, Page 21
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171DEAR WIFE New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 557, 24 February 1950, Page 21
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