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My American Wife

My American Wife

1936Movie⏱️ 1h 5mApproved
ComedyRomance
6.3
IMDB Rating
92 votes

Count Ferdinand von und zu Reidenach arrives in Smelter City, Arizona, with his American bride, Mary Cantillon. Mary's grandfather, Lafe Cantillon, founded the town and disapproves of Mary's marriage to a foreigner. Mary and her m...

Director
Harold Young
Writers
Elmer Davis, Virginia Van Upp, Edith Fitzgerald
Stars
Francis Lederer, Ann Sothern, Fred Stone
Release Date
August 7, 1936
Language
French, English
Country
United States
💬 3
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Francis Lederer
Francis Lederer
as Count Ferdinand von und zu Reidenach
Ann Sothern
Ann Sothern
as Mary Cantillon
Fred Stone
Fred Stone
as Lafe Cantillon
Billie Burke
Billie Burke
as Mrs. Robert Cantillon
Ernest Cossart
Ernest Cossart
as Adolph
Grant Mitchell
Grant Mitchell
as Robert Cantillon
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Hal K. Dawson
as Stephen Cantillon
Helene Millard
Helene Millard
as Mrs. Vincent Cantillon
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Adrian Morris
as Vincent Cantillon
Dora Clement
Dora Clement
as Agnes, Mrs. Stephen Cantillon

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Color
Black and White
Filming Location
Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Production
Paramount Pictures

🏷️ Keywords

american ambassador

🎯 Categories

FrenchComedyRomance

⭐ Featured Review

A count conquers the West
by SimonJack2024-11-26
6/10

"A number of comedies were made in the 1930s and 1940s that centered around a wealthy American marrying into European aristocracy. Most of them were rich daughters or heiresses who were seeking their princes. But sometimes it was the male nobility seeking a bailout for the lost or in-debt family estate. Both types were just high society and snobbish versions of the more familiar type of American situations with gold diggers and goldbricks. Of course, the ever erudite movie audiences of those days - in the Americas or Europe, knew that a rose is a rose by any other name. And so, most of these fi..."

💡 Did You Know?

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecasts took place in Omaha Saturday 15 August 1959 on KETV (Channel 7) and in Seattle Thursday 1 October 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7).

📖 Synopsis

Count Ferdinand von und zu Reidenach arrives in Smelter City, Arizona, with his American bride, Mary Cantillon. Mary's grandfather, Lafe Cantillon, founded the town and disapproves of Mary's marriage to a foreigner. Mary and her m...