Imagine meeting a giddy father-in-law, and then immediately afterward receiving a book with that title for a wedding present - and you aren't even married, but are only pretending!
Loretta Young is a feminist heroine who writes novels for spinsters. Through a series of misadventures which start the instant the film begins, she has to live a duplicitous life with Ray Milland, playing the chauvinist pig doctor who feels no less foisted-upon by circumstances than she does. He skewers Loretta remorselessly about her feminist leanings but the daggers come out when she learns that he is given a professorship simply because the dean prefers married employees. The dazzling Gail Patrick, Edmund Gwenn, and Reginald Gardiner provide great support for the leads.
Hilarious & charming, not quite madcap only because there are Keystone Kops and Marx Bros. In the world to compare, "Doctor Takes a Wife" is endlessly humorous and lighthearted, a perfect movie for wintry evenings.
Loretta Young is a feminist heroine who writes novels for spinsters. Through a series of misadventures which start the instant the film begins, she has to live a duplicitous life with Ray Milland, playing the chauvinist pig doctor who feels no less foisted-upon by circumstances than she does. He skewers Loretta remorselessly about her feminist leanings but the daggers come out when she learns that he is given a professorship simply because the dean prefers married employees. The dazzling Gail Patrick, Edmund Gwenn, and Reginald Gardiner provide great support for the leads.
Hilarious & charming, not quite madcap only because there are Keystone Kops and Marx Bros. In the world to compare, "Doctor Takes a Wife" is endlessly humorous and lighthearted, a perfect movie for wintry evenings.