My Favorite Wife is a1940 screwball comedy produced and co-written by Leo McCarey and directed by Garson Kanin. It stars Irene Dunne plays Ellen Arden who returns to her husband (Cary Grant) and children after being shipwrecked on a tropical island for several years. Ellen arrives home to find her husband Nick just remarried to Bianca. The overjoyed Nick awkwardly tries to break the news gently to Bianca. But before he can do that, an unpleasant surprise–news that Ellen has spent the 7 years on a deserted island with fellow-survivor Burkett. Nick’s jealousy tries to find out the truth. Hilarious confusion reigns before Nick chooses his favorite wife. The story is an adaptation of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “Enoch Arden”; in tribute, the main characters’ last name is Arden.
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saw your blog on OCRegister. Love the idea behind it! Although my hardest problem to being a good wife is having a husband who shares the domestic duties–I work and bring home the bacon too!
Still, I do strive to be someone he loves to come home to…
will start following you for some tips!
Hello! I found your site through the news article. I thought this digital collection of old ads might give you some additional ‘wife-related’ images or fun trips down memory lane:
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adviews/.
I have been single for six years since my “wife” of 10 years decided one day to do the opposite of what you preach. In the beginning she was the good wife, but she changed. So, I have no luck finding available women in this day and age who would openly communicate a desire to cook, clean, shop, plan, organize, and take care of the house for the family. These are things I am not good at, but I am very good at earning money. The women I meet seem to be products of the women’s rights movement–be self-sufficient, independent, and career oriented…uggg. I scare women off with my 50’s type philosophy of family roles. I hope you keep up your work in this area with the hope more mothers can raise their children to follow traditional roles.
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