"My favorite wife" originally released as a motion picture in 1940 ; "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" originally released as a motion picture in 1941 ; "Woman of the year" originally released as a motion picture in 1942 ; "Instant love" originally released as a motion picture in 1964. Closed captioned for the hearing impaired. Special features: (Disc 1) vintage Robert Benchley short "Home movies" ; 12/7/50 Screen Director's Playhouse radio production starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne ; theatrical trailer ; (Disc 2) "Mr. Hitchcock meets the Smiths" making-of documentary ; theatrical trailer ; (Disc 3) theatrical trailer. My favorite wife: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick ; Mr. & Mrs. Smith: Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond, Jack Carson, Philip Merivale, Lucile Watson ; Woman of the year: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen ; Instant love: Rossano Brazzi, Rhonda Fleming, Odete Lara, William Redfield.
Contents:
Disc 4. Instant love / SFM Entertainment ; produced by Martin B. Cohen ; screenplay by Francis Swann ; directed by Paul Sylbert. Disc 2. Mr. & Mrs. Smith / RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. ; produced by Harry E. Edington ; story and screenplay by Norman Krasna ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Disc 3. Woman of the year / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz ; screenplay by Ring Lardner, Jr. and Michael Kanin ; directed by George Stevens. Disc 4. Instant love / SFM Entertainment ; produced by Martin B. Cohen ; screenplay by Francis Swann ; directed by Paul Sylbert.
Summary:
My favorite wife: A funny thing happens to Nick on his way to his honeymoon suite. He meets his wife. No, not his bride. He meets the wife that was lost at sea seven years ago and presumed dead ; Mr. & Mrs. Smith: New York sophisticates David Smith and Ann Smith née Krausheimer have been lovingly and passionately married for three years, or so they believed. They are told individually that due to a technicality - an unresolved municipal and state jurisdictional issue at the time of their supposed marriage - their wedding was not legal, and as such they are not really married ; Woman of the year: Sam Craig is a down-to-earth sportswriter a newspaper. Tess Harding, the paper's international columnist, makes his life miserable and they start taking swipes at each other in their columns. Soon their problems are overcome by the fact that they are falling in love ; Instant love: Pamela, an American film star, falls in love with coffee grower, Claudio, while in Brazil. When the two are hastily married, they find themselves entwined in a clash of cultures.
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