TCM Greatest Classic Films: Romantic Affairs (4FE)
MY FAVORITE WIFE (1940) - A funny thing happens to newlywed Nick Arden (Grant) on the way to the honeymoon suite: he meets the wife (Irene Dunne) who was lost at sea and presumed dead. Nick goes from having one wife to two to none to one in this screwball comedy also starring Randolph Scott and Gail Patrick. MR.& MRS. SMITH (1941) - Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery are the stars of this breezy comedy, in which a technicality voids the Smiths three-year marriage and they find themselves asking whether they should do it all over again. Alfred Hitchcock directs from Norman Krasnas script. WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942) - Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn show what chemistry is all about as George Stevens directs this witty Oscar® winner* about the bumpy romance of a meat-and-potatoes sportswriter and a world-renowned political pundit, written by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin. INSTANT LOVE (aka PÃO DE AÇÚCAR) (1964) - Rhonda Fleming shines as Pamela, an American film star who falls in love with coffee grower Claudio (Rossano Brazzi) while in Brazil. When the two are hastily married, Pamela finds herself entwined in a clash of cultures in this rarely seen romantic comedy.
