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My Wife's Family is a British film with Ronald Shiner

My Wife's Family (1956)

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Length 1h16

My Wife's Family is a 1956 British comedy film directed by Gilbert Gunn and starring Ronald Shiner as Doc Knott, Ted Ray, Greta Gynt, Diane Hart and Robertson Hare. It was a remake of the 1941 British film My Wife's Family, and is the third British film of the stage farce of the same name by actor Fred Duprez.

Synopsis

Jack Gay, a newlywed with a dominating mother-in-law attempts to surprise his wife Stella with a baby grand piano, but when she overhears him discussing it, she mistakes it for an illegitimate child, particularly with the arrival of his ex girlfriend, the blonde and glamourous Gloria Marsh.

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Ronald Shiner
Ted Ray
Greta Gynt
Fabia Drake
Diane Hart
Zena Marshall
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