Too Many Husbands (Original photograph of Wesley Ruggles from the set of the 1940 film)

  • N.p.: N.p., 1940
By Wesley Ruggles (director); W. Somerset Maugham (play); Irving Lippman (photographer); Claude Binyon (screenwriter); Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1940. Vintage reference photographs of director Wesley Ruggles on the set of the 1940 film, by photographer Irving Lippman. Mimeo snipe and photographer "Irving Lippman" stamp on verso.

Based on the 1919 play by W. Somerset Maugham, which was based on the 1864 poem "Enoch Arden" by Alfred Tennyson.

Soon after presumed window Vicky (Jean Arthur) marries her late husband's friend and business partner Henry (Melvyn Douglas), her first, presumed dead, husband Bill (Fred MacMurray) shows back up, and now she's got one too many.

Nominated for an Academy Award.

10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Byrge and Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films, A History and Filmography, 1934-1942.

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