Columbia Pictures
Not part of a collection.
The Doctor Takes a Wife
The Romance Is Contagious! The Fun Is Catching!
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
- Original title
- The Doctor Takes a Wife
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- —
CinemaSerf
Jun 5, 2025 · via TMDB
“June” (Loretta Young) is searching for material for her follow-up book to her successful tome extolling the virtues of spinsterhood and illustrating that women don’t need a man in their lives at all! Meantime, university professor “Tim” (Ray Milland) happens to encounter this woman whilst he is trying to make a long distance phone call and next thing he is giving her a lift, ends up with a broken nose and a five dollar bar credit in her living room! Before they know it, her publisher (Reginald Gardiner) arrives whilst “Tim” is only semi clad, hungover and people are soon starting to make outrageous assumptions about their fledgling relationship. What now ensues does rather follow the established pattern as the two vacillate between loathing and intolerance to, well you can guess that bit… Young had good timing and was quite efficient at delivering the odd barbed remark and she does so well here whilst reinforcing the story’s underpinning point about independent women. Milland, doesn’t fare so well here though as his part is boxed in by the slightly screwball nature of the comedy and the predictability of the plot as it races at break-neck speed towards it’s obvious conclusion. Edmund Gwenn pops up now and again as our hapless academic’s father and Gail Patrick manages to keep a straight face as his affianced “Marilyn” and with some of the humour just a little close to the bone than in many similar enterprises, this has a sharpness at times that makes it just about worth a watch.
User reviews courtesy of TMDB.
Loretta Young
June Cameron
Ray Milland
Dr. Timothy Sterling
Reginald Gardiner
John Pierce
Gail Patrick
Marilyn Thomas
Edmund Gwenn
Dr. Lionel Sterling
Frank Sully
Slapcovitch
Gordon Jones
O'Brien
Georges Metaxa
Jean Rovere
Charles Halton
Dr. Streeter
Paul McAllister
Dean Lawton
Chester Clute
Johnson
Hal K. Dawson
Charlie
Edward Van Sloan
Burkhardt
Helen Ainsworth
Amazon in Book Store (uncredited)
Erville Alderson
Harrison, the Printer (uncredited)
Dorothy Appleby
Woman in Book Store (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor
Extra (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
Sam Appleby (uncredited)
Don Beddoe
Morning Express Reporter (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
Dapper Salesman (uncredited)
Spencer Charters
Henry Quinn (uncredited)
Edgar Dearing
Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Vernon Dent
Man Outside Phone Booth (uncredited)
Claire Du Brey
Party Guest (uncredited)
Edward Earle
Party Guest (uncredited)
Edward Gargan
George, the Doorman (uncredited)
Sumner Getchell
Wedding Celebrant (uncredited)
Olin Howland
Clerk at Lakewood Lodge (uncredited)
Jane Keckley
Mrs. Quinn (uncredited)
Charles Lane
Reporter (uncredited)
Bobby Larson
Boy (uncredited)
Eddie Laughton
Photographer (uncredited)
Frances Morris
University Registration Desk Clerk (uncredited)
William Newell
Soda Jerk (uncredited)
Frank Orth
New York Editor (uncredited)
Renie Riano
Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Virginia Sale
School Teacher (uncredited)
Dorothy Anne Seese
Child (uncredited)
Vera Steadman
Extra (uncredited)
Gertrude Sutton
Mabel (voice) (uncredited)
Carol Tevis
Whiney Woman in Bookstore (uncredited)
Larry Wheat
Party Guest (uncredited)
John Wray
Joe, the Farmer (uncredited)
Alexander Hall
Director
Viola Lawrence
Editor
Morris Stoloff
Music Director
George Seaton
Screenplay
Aabroo
Eine Hochzeit und (K)ein Todesfall
Der tolle Bomberg
Faltu
Fraulein
Brief Encounter
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Your Happiness Depends on Me
Meet Joe Black
Dirty Dancing
Patch Adams
Stranger Than Fiction
The Painted Veil
Flickering Lights
People Will Talk
The Lake House
Calling Dr. Gillespie
One Piece: Episode of Chopper Plus: Bloom in the Winter, Miracle Cherry Blossom
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Frighteners
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
M*A*S*H
Seducing Doctor Lewis
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Vanilla Sky
Love in the Time of Cholera
La Hermanita Dinamita
Carry On Doctor
Praxis Dr. Hasenbein
Die Aufschneider
Bride of Re-Animator
Swept from the Sea
The Belle of Broadway
The Sign of Death
Wolf
Guess Who
The Devil's in Love
Blind Dating
The Wedding Planner
Sahara
Beyond Re-Animator
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Christmas Under Wraps
A Hologram for the King
It Was Not In Vain
Trainwreck
Barry Munday
Crazy
Dr. Cabbie
The Millionairess
Century
Man with the Screaming Brain
Boxing Helena
I Demand Payment
The Pearls of the Bojana
Dr. T & the Women
Getting Away with Murder
The Naked Man
Von Mäusen und Lügen
Heartless
Dharman
It Happened One Night
The Philadelphia Story
Libeled Lady
Cactus Flower
5 to 7
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Crazy Rich Asians
The Palm Beach Story
Vivacious Lady
My Favorite Wedding
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Horse Feathers
Teacher's Pet
High Society
One Small Hitch
Sex and the Single Girl
That Uncertain Feeling
A Cinderella Story
Midnight at the Magnolia
Wedding Season
Housesitter
Phffft
The Truth About Cats & Dogs
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
The Wedding Planner
A Guide for the Married Man
Apr 25, 1940
Aug 4, 2009
DVD
