What is The More the Merrier / Too Many Husbands about?

THE MORE THE MERRIER, 1943, Sony Repertory, 104 min. Dir. George Stevens. Stevens’ last comedy is a topical romance about a wartime housing shortage in Washington. Jean Arthur reluctantly sublets half her apartment to retired millionaire Charles Coburn—who promptly sublets half of his half to dreamy soldier Joel McCrea! TOO MANY HUSBANDS, 1940, Sony Repertory, 84 min. Dir. Wesley Ruggles. A delectable comedy from Somerset Maugham’s play Town and Country, which essentially puts a gender switch on Enoch Arden: a year after Fred MacMurray is reported drowned, wife Jean Arthur marries his partner and best friend Melvyn Douglas…and then Fred turns up very much alive, forcing the two to compete for her affections.

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What is The More the Merrier / Too Many Husbands about?: THE MORE THE MERRIER, 1943, Sony Repertory, 104 min. Dir. George Stevens. Stevens’ last comedy is a topical romance about a wartime housing shortage in Washington. Jean Arthur reluctantly sublets half her apartment to retired millionaire Charles Coburn—who promptly sublets half of his half to dreamy soldier Joel McCrea!

TOO MANY HUSBANDS, 1940, Sony Repertory, 84 min. Dir. Wesley Ruggles. A delectable comedy from Somerset Maugham’s play Town and Country, which essentially puts a gender switch on Enoch Arden: a year after Fred MacMurray is reported drowned, wife Jean Arthur marries his partner and best friend Melvyn Douglas…and then Fred turns up very much alive, forcing the two to compete for her affections.