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Are Husbands Necessary? (1942 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Are Husbands Necessary?' is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Ray Milland and Betty Field. It follows the misadventures of a wacky wife and her sometimes exasperated, but loving, banker husband. The film's screenplay was adapted by the husband-and-wife writing team of Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis, from the novel 'Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage' by Isabel Scott Rorick. This novel would later be a source for the related 1948 radio series 'My Favorite Husband' starring Lucille Ball, which itself would evolve into the television series 'I Love Lucy'.
A one-hour 'Lux Radio Theatre' adaptation of the film, featuring George Burns and Gracie Allen, aired February 15, 1943, on CBS Radio.
Cast
*Ray Milland as George Cugat
*Betty Field as Mary Elizabeth Cugat
*Patricia Morison as Myra Ponsonby
*Eugene Pallette as Bunker
*Philip Terry as Cory Cartwright
*Richard Haydn as Chuck
*Charles Dingle as Duncan Atterbury
*Kathleen Lockhart as Laura Atterbury
*Leif Erickson as Bill Stone
*Cecil Kellaway as Dr. Buell
*Elizabeth Risdon as Mrs. Westwood
*Charlotte Wynters as Mrs. Finley
References
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