Directed by:
Gregory RatoffScreenplay:
Nunnally JohnsonCinematography:
Ernest PalmerComposer:
Charles MaxwellCast:
Loretta Young, Warner Baxter, Binnie Barnes, Cesar Romero, George Barbier, J. Edward Bromberg, Eugene Pallette, Helen Westley, Ruth Terry, Lawrence Grant (more)Plots(1)
20th Century-Fox evidently adored "triangle" comedies like Wife, Husband and Friend; apparently so did Loretta Young, who appeared in most of these films. Young plays the wife of businessman Warner Baxter, while "friend" Cesar Romero is an amorous singing teacher who convinces Young that she has a future in opera. To show up his wife, Baxter takes lessons from diva Binnie Barnes--and as it turns out, he's the one with the ideal operatic voice. The romantic quadrangle is resolved when Baxter makes a disastrous stage debut, whereupon Romero and Barnes exit and Baxter and Young realize the error of their ways. Wife, Husband and Friend was remade in 1949 as Everybody Does It, with Paul Douglas (of all people) as the would-be Caruso. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Loretta Young
USA
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
The Stranger (1946)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Warner Baxter
USA
Best movies:
West of Zanzibar (1928)
42nd Street (1933)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
Binnie Barnes
UK
Best movies:
Holiday (1938)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Frontier Marshal (1939)
Cesar Romero
USA
Best movies:
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Frontier Marshal (1939)
The Racers (1955)
George Barbier
USA
Best movies:
One Hour with You (1932)
The Crusades (1935)
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
J. Edward Bromberg
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
A Song Is Born (1948)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Arch of Triumph (1948)
Eugene Pallette
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
Helen Westley
USA
Best movies:
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Show Boat (1936)
Roberta (1935)
Ruth Terry
USA
Best movies:
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Lawrence Grant
UK
Best movies:
Ninotchka (1939)
Lost Horizon (1937)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Charles Williams
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Love Is News (1937)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Howard C. Hickman
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Holiday (1938)
George Irving
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Harry Hayden
Canada
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Alice Armand
USA
Harry Rosenthal
USA
Best movies:
Birth of the Blues (1941)
The Big Clock (1948)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Robert Lowery
USA
Best movies:
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Come and Get It (1936)
Bess Flowers
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rear Window (1954)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Ruth Clifford
USA
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Gino Corrado
Italy
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Sunrise (1927)
Fury (1936)