Dream Wife (1953)
3.1 of 5 from 47 ratings
1h 40min
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- Synopsis:
Businessman Clemson Reade (Cary Grant) breaks his engagement with workaholic U.S. diplomat girlfriend Effie (Deborah Kerr) for an adoring "old-fashioned" girl from the fictional country of Bukistan, Princess Tarji (Betta St. John). Reade wants a wife who can "just find having babies and taking care of a man" pleasurable. While Reade tries to get closer to his bride-to-be, Effie, who has been assigned by the State Department to see that the marriage does not disturb a major oil deal with Bukistan, ends up educating the Princess about such Western ideas of the role of a wife and women's emancipation, while, simultaneously moderating some of her own ideas about making the happiness of her "man" (i.e. Grant) a primary concern. Grant's courtship of the Princess, which he attempts to conduct by "American" customs, must be adjusted to Bukistanian tradition, to protect the proposed oil deal. - Actors:
- Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Betta St. John, Eduard Franz, Buddy Baer, Les Tremayne, Donald Randolph, Bruce Bennett, Richard Anderson, Dan Tobin, Movita, Gloria Holden, June Clayworth, Dean Miller, Steve Forrest, Jonathan Cott, Patricia Tiernan, John Alvin, Jean Andren
- Directors:
- Sidney Sheldon
- Writers:
- Sidney Sheldon, Herbert Baker
- Others:
- Helen Rose, Herschel McCoy
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Romance
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