When We Are Married

Name: When We Are Married
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1943-07-12
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Sydney Howard, Raymond Huntley, Olga Lindo

19431943
1h 38m

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6.0/10

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Comedy

The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand ... Read allThe Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer.The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer.

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6.0/10

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Director
- Lance Comfort
Writers
- Barbara K. Emary
- Austin Melford
- J.B. Priestley(play)
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The film is an adaptation of a 1938 stage play by John Boynton Priestley. It is set in Edwardian-era Yorkshire, where three married couples gather to celebrate their Silver Wedding Anniversary (25th Anniversary). They were all wed on the same day, a quarter century ago. To their surprise, they learn that a legal technicality may render all three marriages invalid. Meaning that they have been "living in sin" for 25 years. Following their initial shock, they start contemplating single life. Some of them are fed up with their spouse, others remember past love interests who they have not seen in a long time. And yet others are trying to get reacquainted with their spouse. —Dimos I

1900s

married couple

silver jubilee

wedding anniversary

invalid marriage

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- Comedy
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Patricia Hayes previously played Ruby Birtle in When We Are Married (1938) and would later reprise her role in When We Are Married (1949).

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7/10

Amusing comedy of manners.

i'm inserting reviews for films I'v seen that so far lack one, this is a rare chance to say something favorable, review.... From a J.B.Priestley play, this is a comedy of manners set in a small Yorkshire town circa 1900, when three leading bigwigs are informed that their marriages are void as the minister was not qualified, good. I'm a fan of director L.Comfort, and this is clearly a rare film, but I saw it in Sep 2011 when it was shown at the NFT in London.

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