Day-Time Wife

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Day-Time Wife
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Written by Rex Taylor
Screenplay byArt Arthur
Robert Harari
Sam Hellman
Produced by Raymond Griffith
Starring Tyrone Power
Linda Darnell
Warren William
Cinematography J. Peverell Marley
Edited by Francis D. Lyon
Music by Cyril J. Mockridge
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • November 24, 1939 (1939-11-24)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language English

Day-Time Wife is a 1939 screwball comedy directed by Gregory Ratoff, starring Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell. [1] Darnell and Power play Jane and Ken Norton, a married couple approaching their second anniversary. This was Linda Darnell's second film. Day-Time Wife was the first of four films that Darnell and Power made together over the next few years, the others being Brigham Young (1940), The Mark of Zorro (1940), and Blood and Sand (1941). [2]

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Plot

Jane comes to believe her husband Ken is having an extramarital affair with his secretary Kitty. To give him a taste of his own medicine, Jane secretly takes a job as secretary to womanizing architect Bernard Dexter, who, unbeknownst to Jane, has a business relationship with Ken. [3]

Cast

Production

Despite playing a married woman, star Linda Darnell was only 15 years old at the time of filming, having been born on October 16, 1923. Fox studio executive Darryl F. Zanuck added two years to her real age when he signed her to a contract. [4]

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  2. "Feature Film/TV Episode/Video/TV Movie/TV Special/TV Mini-Series/Documentary/Video Game/Short Film, with Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)". IMDb .
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