---
title: 'Are Husbands Necessary? (1942)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Norman Taurog'
released: '1942-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 79
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/are-husbands-necessary-1942'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034467/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Are Husbands Necessary? (1942)

1942 · 79 min · Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

Are Husbands Necessary? is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Ray Milland and Betty Field. It follows the misadventures of a wacky wife and her sometimes exasperated, but loving, banker husband. The film's screenplay was adapted by the husband-and-wife writing team of Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis, from the novel Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage by Isabel Scott Rorick. This novel would later be a source for the related 1948 radio series My Favorite Husband starring Lucille Ball, which itself would evolve into the television series I Love Lucy. A more direct TV adaptation of the radio series retained the title My Favorite Husband.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Norman Taurog](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-taurog)
- **Screenplay:** [Tess Slesinger](https://cinepixo.com/people/tess-slesinger)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Robert E. Dolan](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-e-dolan)
- **Director of Photography:** [Charles Lang](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-lang)
- **Editor:** [LeRoy Stone](https://cinepixo.com/people/leroy-stone)

## Cast

- [Eugene Pallette](https://cinepixo.com/people/eugene-pallette)
- [Olive Blakeney](https://cinepixo.com/people/olive-blakeney)
- [Betty Field](https://cinepixo.com/people/betty-field)
- [Cecil Kellaway](https://cinepixo.com/people/cecil-kellaway)
- [Leif Erickson](https://cinepixo.com/people/leif-erickson)
- [Edmund Mortimer](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-mortimer)
- [Charles Dingle](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-dingle)
- [Kathleen Lockhart](https://cinepixo.com/people/kathleen-lockhart)
- [Edward Peil](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-peil)
- [George Chandler](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-chandler)
- [Charles Lane](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-lane)
- [Cecil Cunningham](https://cinepixo.com/people/cecil-cunningham)
- [Jimmy Conlin](https://cinepixo.com/people/jimmy-conlin)
- [Richard Haydn](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-haydn)
- [Ray Milland](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-milland)

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