---in films from my high school days:
My Favorite Wife (1940) Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott. Wife(Dunne), missing 7 years, shipwrecked with a handsome scientist(Scott) who was collecting specimens with, returns to hubby(Grant) and her 2 children, who were babes when she left, only to find he has that very day married another woman{Gail Patrick}. The mix ups and befuddlement of Grant as the hubby, is half the fun. Funniest scenes are in the courtroom of Judge Bryson (Granville Bates), who is the crotchety and funny man who has to declare one wife alive, and the other annulled, all the while sneering at "the Harvard man; I'm a Yale man myself." My only quibble is the last 5 minutes when it gets all cutesy with the Santa outfit, the squeaking bed, and Grant trying to get Dunne to let him get in her bed. I have to quit watching after suffering through it many times. That's what that darn code did to lots of films - made the last 5 minutes unwatchable. Dang. Otherwise, 8/10. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029284/
The Locket (1946) Loraine Day, Brian Ahearn, Robert Mitchum, Gene Raymond. At a wedding a man shows up and tells the groom he is marrying a sociopathic liar. Of course, he is not believed, especially when the bride confronts him and says she never did what he is accusing her of. And so begins a very intricate tale of deception and death. Day, with her innocent air, and lovely speaking voice, carries off the role to perfection. Naturally, in this type of 40s film, it is all about what happened when she was a child. One by one, her reinventing herself and each time, a new man wants to rescue her. The cast is very good and this was a favorite of my high school days. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038700/
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