Movie Cosmos - The Doctor Takes a Wife

Description:

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.

Top Cast >

Loretta Young

As June Cameron

Ray Milland

As Dr. Timothy Sterling

Reginald Gardiner

As John Pierce

Gail Patrick

As Marilyn Thomas

Edmund Gwenn

As Dr. Lionel Sterling

Frank Sully

As Slapcovitch

Gordon Jones

As O'Brien

Georges Metaxa

As Jean Rovere

Charles Halton

As Dr. Streeter

Joseph Eggenton

As Dr. Nielson

Paul McAllister

As Dean Lawton

Chester Clute

As Johnson

Hal K. Dawson

As Charlie

Edward Van Sloan

As Burkhardt

Helen Ainsworth

As Amazon in Book Store (uncredited)

Erville Alderson

As Harrison, the Printer (uncredited)

Dorothy Appleby

As Woman in Book Store (uncredited)

Gertrude Astor

As Extra (uncredited)

Irving Bacon

As Sam Appleby (uncredited)

Don Beddoe

As Morning Express Reporter (uncredited)

Henry Blair

As Boy (uncredited)

Harry C. Bradley

As Dapper Salesman (uncredited)

Spencer Charters

As Henry Quinn (uncredited)

Catherine Courtney

As Woman in Book Store (uncredited)

Dix Davis

As Boy (uncredited)

Helen Davis

As Woman in Book Store (uncredited)

Edgar Dearing

As Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)

Vernon Dent

As Man Outside Phone Booth (uncredited)

Claire Du Brey

As Party Guest (uncredited)

Edward Earle

As Party Guest (uncredited)

Edward Gargan

As George, the Doorman (uncredited)

Sumner Getchell

As Wedding Celebrant (uncredited)

Wesley Giraud

As Western Union Boy (uncredited)

Jane Goude

As Mrs. Nielson (uncredited)

Olin Howland

As Clerk at Lakewood Lodge (uncredited)

Jane Keckley

As Mrs. Quinn (uncredited)

William Lally

As Deck Steward (uncredited)

Charles Lane

As Reporter (uncredited)

Bobby Larson

As Boy (uncredited)

Eddie Laughton

As Photographer (uncredited)

Ann Lee

As Maid (uncredited)

Ian Maclaren

As Professor (uncredited)

Myra Marsh

As Lydia Johnson (uncredited)

Frances Morris

As University Registration Desk Clerk (uncredited)

William Newell

As Soda Jerk (uncredited)

Frank Orth

As New York Editor (uncredited)

Renie Riano

As Telegraph Operator (uncredited)

Virginia Sale

As School Teacher (uncredited)

Dorothy Anne Seese

As Child (uncredited)

Vera Steadman

As Extra (uncredited)

Gertrude Sutton

As Mabel (voice) (uncredited)

Emma Tansey

As Old Woman Sitting Outside of Lakewood Lodge (uncredited)

Carol Tevis

As Whiney Woman in Bookstore (uncredited)

Charlotte Treadway

As Woman in Book Store (uncredited)

Larry Wheat

As Party Guest (uncredited)

John Wray

As Joe, the Farmer (uncredited)

Top Crew >

Alexander Hall

Director

Reviews:

CinemaSerf (6/10)

“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.

2025-06-05