The Doctor Takes a Wife

The Doctor Takes a Wife

6.4 / Rating 1940

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.

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The Doctor Takes a Wife is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Loretta Young, Ray Milland, Reginald Gardiner, Gail Patrick and Edmund Gwenn. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Young and Milland portray a best-selling author and medical school instructor, respectively, who find it convenient to pretend to be married, even though they initially loathe each other.

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