The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
Directed by Alexander Hall
Genres - Comedy |
Sub-Genres - Screwball Comedy |
Release Date - Apr 25, 1940 (USA - Unknown), Apr 25, 1940 (USA) |
Run Time - 89 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Fiercely independent authoress June Cameron (Loretta Young) has no time for men in her life. Chauvinistic medical college professor Timothy Sterling (Ray Milland) has no use for women. So guess who is mistaken for June's husband, and guess who is forced by circumstances to pretend that she's married? The Doctor Takes a Wife maintains its exhausting comic pace until about five minutes before the end, when the scriptwriters are forced to take a breather to tie up all the loose plot ends. The "fantasy" closing gag went over so well that Columbia Pictures utilized variations of it in several subsequent screwball comedies.
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Keywords
battle-of-the-sexes, marriage-of-convenience, mistaken-identity, professor, romance, writing
