Movies

HomeMoviesSearchTV SeriesBookmarksView Source
The Doctor Takes a Wife
The Doctor Takes a Wife

The Doctor Takes a Wife

The Romance Is Contagious! The Fun Is Catching!

Genres

ComedyRomance

OverView

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.

Others

Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

88 mins

Rating

6.444/10

Release Date

25 April 1940

Country

United States of America

Cast

Loretta Young

Loretta Young

June Cameron

Ray Milland

Ray Milland

Dr. Timothy Sterling

Reginald Gardiner

Reginald Gardiner

John Pierce

Gail Patrick

Gail Patrick

Marilyn Thomas

Edmund Gwenn

Edmund Gwenn

Dr. Lionel Sterling

Frank Sully

Frank Sully

Slapcovitch

Gordon Jones

Gordon Jones

O'Brien

Georges Metaxa

Georges Metaxa

Jean Rovere

Charles Halton

Charles Halton

Dr. Streeter

Joseph Eggenton

Joseph Eggenton

Dr. Nielson

Paul McAllister

Paul McAllister

Dean Lawton

Chester Clute

Chester Clute

Johnson

Hal K. Dawson

Hal K. Dawson

Charlie

Edward Van Sloan

Edward Van Sloan

Burkhardt

Helen Ainsworth

Helen Ainsworth

Amazon in Book Store (uncredited)

Erville Alderson

Erville Alderson

Harrison, the Printer (uncredited)

Dorothy Appleby

Dorothy Appleby

Woman in Book Store (uncredited)

Gertrude Astor

Gertrude Astor

Extra (uncredited)

Irving Bacon

Irving Bacon

Sam Appleby (uncredited)

Don Beddoe

Don Beddoe

Morning Express Reporter (uncredited)

Henry Blair

Henry Blair

Boy (uncredited)

Harry C. Bradley

Harry C. Bradley

Dapper Salesman (uncredited)

Spencer Charters

Spencer Charters

Henry Quinn (uncredited)

Catherine Courtney

Catherine Courtney

Woman in Book Store (uncredited)

Dix Davis

Dix Davis

Boy (uncredited)

Helen Davis

Helen Davis

Woman in Book Store (uncredited)

Edgar Dearing

Edgar Dearing

Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)

Vernon Dent

Vernon Dent

Man Outside Phone Booth (uncredited)

Claire Du Brey

Claire Du Brey

Party Guest (uncredited)

Edward Earle

Edward Earle

Party Guest (uncredited)

Edward Gargan

Edward Gargan

George, the Doorman (uncredited)

Sumner Getchell

Sumner Getchell

Wedding Celebrant (uncredited)

Wesley Giraud

Wesley Giraud

Western Union Boy (uncredited)

Jane Goude

Jane Goude

Mrs. Nielson (uncredited)

Olin Howland

Olin Howland

Clerk at Lakewood Lodge (uncredited)

Jane Keckley

Jane Keckley

Mrs. Quinn (uncredited)

William Lally

William Lally

Deck Steward (uncredited)

Charles Lane

Charles Lane

Reporter (uncredited)

Bobby Larson

Bobby Larson

Boy (uncredited)

Eddie Laughton

Eddie Laughton

Photographer (uncredited)

Ann Lee

Ann Lee

Maid (uncredited)

Ian Maclaren

Ian Maclaren

Professor (uncredited)

Myra Marsh

Myra Marsh

Lydia Johnson (uncredited)

Frances Morris

Frances Morris

University Registration Desk Clerk (uncredited)

William Newell

William Newell

Soda Jerk (uncredited)

Frank Orth

Frank Orth

New York Editor (uncredited)

Renie Riano

Renie Riano

Telegraph Operator (uncredited)

Virginia Sale

Virginia Sale

School Teacher (uncredited)

Dorothy Anne Seese

Dorothy Anne Seese

Child (uncredited)

Vera Steadman

Vera Steadman

Extra (uncredited)

Gertrude Sutton

Gertrude Sutton

Mabel (voice) (uncredited)

Emma Tansey

Emma Tansey

Old Woman Sitting Outside of Lakewood Lodge (uncredited)

Carol Tevis

Carol Tevis

Whiney Woman in Bookstore (uncredited)

Charlotte Treadway

Charlotte Treadway

Woman in Book Store (uncredited)

Larry Wheat

Larry Wheat

Party Guest (uncredited)

John Wray

John Wray

Joe, the Farmer (uncredited)

Similar Movies

4.0

Up! Up! To the sky

January 2008 •English

From an early age, Arnold believes he is an extraterrestrial. Day in, day out, he is busy trying to build a flying machine that will finally take him "home". Protected by his mother Ida and her long-time admirer, the country doctor Emil, he is regarded as a quirky but lovable outsider in his home village.

5.9

Sahara

April 2005 •English

Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a confederate ironclad battleship rumored to have vanished long ago, the main draw being the treasure supposedly hidden within the lost vessel. When the daring duo come across Dr. Eva Rojas, a beautiful scientist who is juggling an escape from a warlord and a mission to stop the spread of a powerful plague, their desert expedition begins to heat up.

6.6

Love in the Time of Cholera

October 2007 •English

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

6.0

Medicine Man

February 1992 •English

An eccentric scientist in the Amazon jungle rejects his research assistant for being a woman, but as bulldozers threaten their work on a potential cancer cure, they learn to collaborate and begin to fall in love.

6.5

Phenomenon

July 1996 •English

An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.

7.3

Patch Adams

December 1998 •English

The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.

6.1

Wolf

June 1994 •English

Aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten by a wolf, Will suddenly finds himself full of youthful vigor. As he struggles to regain his position, he becomes enthralled with Laura Alden, his former boss's daughter. And, as increasingly animal-like urges begin to overwhelm him, Randall worries that he may be turning into the creature that bit him.

6.6

Dolittle

January 2020 •English

After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.

4.0

I Demand Payment

December 1938 •English

A just-married young woman attempts suicide after her husband tells her he really doesn't love her because he has become involved in an extortion racket, then finds herself becoming involved with the doctor who has saved her life and become attracted to her.

6.5

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

July 1982 •English

A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.

3.9

Tiptoes

December 2002 •English

A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.

4.0

The Naked Man

August 1998 •English

A man takes matters into his own hands when a pharmaceutical kingpin moves into his town to cause some real trouble.

5.6

Dr. Cabbie

September 2014 •English

An unemployed doctor turned cab driver becomes a local hero when he converts his taxi into a mobile clinic.

0.0

Digest

July 2022 •English

Geoff, a man with an unusual compulsion to eat inedible objects, calls on the unorthodox services of backstreet practitioner Doctor Dora in order to cure his ailment.

7.0

Just Like Heaven

September 2005 •English

Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Masterson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at will, David thinks she's a ghost, while Elizabeth is convinced she's alive.

6.5

Dragonfly

February 2002 •English

A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.

7.2

Flickering Lights

November 2000 •Danish

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

6.0

Your Happiness Depends on Me

June 2006 •German

When the hard-working bread-winner Katja and Hendrik the intellectual meet Saida, an illegal immigrant from Algeria, and accept to organize a "passport marriage" between her and Hendrik, they are caught up in a chain of events and feelings over which they have no control.

4.9

Dr. T & the Women

September 2000 •English

A successful Texas gynecologist finds himself amid a bevy of women and their problems – his wife’s breakdown, his daughter's fake marriage, his other daughter’s conspiracy theories, and his secretary’s crush. Craving time for himself, he finds solace in a kind outsider.

6.9

The Frighteners

July 1996 •English

Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.