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My Wife's Family (1956 film)
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Wikipedia article
'My Wife's Family' is a 1956 British comedy film directed by Gilbert Gunn and starring Ronald Shiner as Doc Knott, Ted Ray, Greta Gynt, Diane Hart and Robertson Hare.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120712004508/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b12b09b BFI] It was a remake of the 1941 British film 'My Wife's Family', and is the third British film of the stage farce of the same name by actor Fred Duprez.
Plot
Jack Gay, a newlywed with a dominating mother-in-law attempts to surprise his wife Stella with a baby grand piano, but when she overhears him discussing it, she mistakes it for an illegitimate child, particularly with the arrival of his ex-girlfriend, the blonde and glamorous Gloria Marsh.
Cast
*Ronald Shiner as Doc Knott
*Ted Ray as Jack Gay
*Diane Hart as Stella Gay
*Fabia Drake as Arabella
*Greta Gynt as Gloria Marsh
*Robertson Hare as Noah
*Zena Marshall as Hilda
*Jessica Cairns as Irma
*Benny Lee as Arnold
*Jimmy Mageean as Dobson
*Gilbert Harding as Himself
Critical reception
'TV Guide' wrote, "The third screen version of Fred Duprez's play proves once and for all there's no hope of reviving the dead...Overplayed without shame, but that doesn't help the ancient jokes any." 'Sky Movies' noted a "broad comedy, with Ronald Shiner and Ted Ray extracting the maximum number of laughs out of the mother-in-law-coming-to-stay situation. Fabia Drake gives a sharply-observed portrait of the old battleaxe."
References
Category:1956 films
Category:1956 comedy films
Category:British comedy films
Category:Films shot at Associated British Studios
Category:Films with screenplays by Talbot Rothwell
Category:British films based on plays
Category:Remakes of British films
Category:1950s English-language films
Category:Films directed by Gilbert Gunn
Category:1950s British films
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