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My Wife's Family is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Monty Banks with Amy Veness

My Wife's Family (1931)

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Length 1h20
Directed by
Genres Comedy

The Wife's Family (also released as My Wife's Family) is a 1931 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Gene Gerrard, Muriel Angelus and Amy Veness. It was based on the popular stage farce by Fred Duprez. The play was subsequently filmed a further four times: in a Swedish version Svärmor kommer, in 1932; a 1933 Finnish film Voi meitä! Anoppi tulee; and British remakes in 1941 and 1956.

Poster taglines: "His Mother-in-law wasn't born--she was quarried out of solid granite and could lick her weight in wildcats!"

"An inside comedy of the in-laws-the in-bads and all but ingratitude!"

Synopsis

Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow understands him to mean he is the father of an illegitimate child.

Actors

Amy Veness

(Arabella Nagg)Gene Gerrard

(Jack Gay)Jimmy Godden

(Doc Knott)Muriel Angelus

(Peggy Gay)Charles Paton

(Noah Nagg)
And :
Tom Helmore
Molly Lamont
Ellen Pollock
Monty Banks
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