January 28 movie: Too Many Husbands. This movie is basically the same as My Favorite Wife, except the genders are reversed. Fred MacMurray comes back from having been marooned on a desert island and presumed dead, to discover that his wife Jean Arthur has married his best friend, Melvyn Douglas.
My Favorite Wife clearly chooses sides & treats the second wife as an interloper, but here both husbands are treated sympathetically. For her part, Jean Arthur loves the lavish attention from two men who neglected her before, and is in no hurry to make a decision. [major spoiler] The movie ends with neither man winning Arthur, but rather a menage a trois. The final scene is the three of them dancing together, the two men looking a bit uneasy, and Arthur saying "Isn't this wonderful?" I might have expected that from a pre-code movie but in 1940 it's kind of brazen!
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