Plot Summary - Screwball comedy about a woman with, you got it, one too many husbands! First husband Bill (Fred MacMurray), washed up on an island after some sort of small boat adventure, is rescued a year later and heads back to New York to be reunited with his wife Vicky (Jean Arthur) - unfortunately for him, he has already been declared dead and Vicky is now married to someone else, his best friend/business partner Henry (Melvyn Douglas) no less. Self-described "lonely widow" while her first man was gone, this gal only waited six months to marry the other fellow! Now Vicky has two husbands - what to do? Indecisive (apparently both men are exactly the same in her eyes), she puts the two to sleep in twin beds in the guest room while she tries to make up her mind. They try to win her over, and she is busy getting a big kick out of the new attention she's getting from these two, formerly not-so-attentive husbands. The two "grown men" get into childish competitions to win her, like leaping over chairs, spelling hard words, and drawing lots for her. And she basically acts like she really would like to keep them both!
Review - Okay, this is a fun, goofy movie with three great stars to help keep things going. The plot is, yes, sort of familiar (like "My Favorite Wife") but is it's own too. The story does drag just a bit in the middle, the indecisiveness of Jean Arthur's character starts to get a bit old - but I do just love Jean Arthur. Rating - 7/10 stars
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