--- title: 'Too Many Husbands (1940)' type: 'film' director: 'Wesley Ruggles' released: '1940-01-01' runtime_minutes: 84 genres: - 'Romance' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/too-many-husbands-1940' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033174/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Too Many Husbands (1940) 1940 · 84 min · Romance · United States ## Synopsis Too Many Husbands is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles, starring Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas. The plot centres on a woman who believes her husband has perished in a boating accident and remarries, only to have her first spouse reappear. The film is based on the 1919 W. Somerset Maugham play Home and Beauty, which was itself retitled Too Many Husbands when it came to New York, and itself takes inspiration from the 1864 Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem Enoch Arden. ## Credits - **Director:** [Wesley Ruggles](https://cinepixo.com/people/wesley-ruggles) - **Producer:** [Wesley Ruggles](https://cinepixo.com/people/wesley-ruggles) - **Screenplay:** [Claude Binyon](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-binyon) - **Original Music Composer:** [Friedrich Hollaender](https://cinepixo.com/people/friedrich-hollaender) - **Director of Photography:** [Joseph Walker](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-walker) - **Editor:** [William Lyon](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-lyon) ## Cast - [Melville Cooper](https://cinepixo.com/people/melville-cooper) - [Harry Davenport](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-davenport) - [Melvyn Douglas](https://cinepixo.com/people/melvyn-douglas) - [Dorothy Peterson](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-peterson) - [Fred MacMurray](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-macmurray) - [Edgar Buchanan](https://cinepixo.com/people/edgar-buchanan) - [Jean Arthur](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-arthur) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/too-many-husbands-1940 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1144353); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.