{"id":13133,"date":"2019-09-14T21:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T01:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13133"},"modified":"2019-09-13T22:48:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T02:48:58","slug":"too-many-husbands-1940-wesley-ruggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13133","title":{"rendered":"Too Many Husbands (1940 Wesley Ruggles)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We heard that someone, somewhere, was having a Jean Arthur marathon, so we decided to participate and found this.  Jean&#8217;s neglectful husband Fred MacMurray is lost at sea and presumed dead, but returns to find she has a new neglectful husband, his business partner Melvyn Douglas, and Jean enjoys having two men fight over her.  The guys try leaving it to chance, but Melvyn cheats &#8211; the movie is pretty much on Fred&#8217;s side from the start.  I guess Wes Ruggles was popular in his time, since his photo appears on the movie poster.  I was not a fan of <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3663\">the first thing<\/a> I saw him direct &#8211; looks like his thing is to cast all my favorite actresses opposite Melvyn Douglas.  Written by Somerset Maugham, the highest-paid author in the world, also featuring butler Melville Cooper, who had played the Sheriff of Nottingham vs. Errol Flynn a couple years earlier.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/toomany.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We heard that someone, somewhere, was having a Jean Arthur marathon, so we decided to participate and found this. Jean&#8217;s neglectful husband Fred MacMurray is lost at sea and presumed dead, but returns to find she has a new neglectful husband, his business partner Melvyn Douglas, and Jean enjoys having two men fight over her. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,1383,1695,978],"class_list":["post-13133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-fred-macmurray","tag-jean-arthur","tag-melvyn-douglas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13153,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133\/revisions\/13153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}