Day-Time Wife is a 1939 screwball comedy directed by Gregory Ratoff, starring Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell.[1] Darnell and Power play Jane and Ken Norton, a married couple approaching their second anniversary. This was Linda Darnell's second film. Day-Time Wife was the first of four films that Darnell and Power made together over the next few years, the others being Brigham Young (1940), The Mark of Zorro (1940), and Blood and Sand (1941).[2]

Day-Time Wife
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGregory Ratoff
Written byRex Taylor
Screenplay byArt Arthur
Robert Harari
Sam Hellman
Produced byRaymond Griffith
StarringTyrone Power
Linda Darnell
Warren William
CinematographyJ. Peverell Marley
Edited byFrancis D. Lyon
Music byCyril J. Mockridge
Distributed byTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • November 24, 1939 (1939-11-24)
Running time
72 min
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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Jane comes to believe her husband Ken is having an extramarital affair with his secretary Kitty. To give him a taste of his own medicine, Jane secretly takes a job as secretary to womanizing architect Bernard Dexter, who, unbeknownst to Jane, has a business relationship with Ken.[3]

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Despite playing a married woman, star Linda Darnell was only 15 years old at the time of filming, having been born on October 16, 1923. Fox studio executive Darryl F. Zanuck added two years to her real age when he signed her to a contract. [4]

References edit

  1. ^ "Day-Time Wife". FilmAffinity. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Feature Film/TV Episode/Video/TV Movie/TV Special/TV Mini-Series/Documentary/Video Game/Short Film, with Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)". IMDb.
  3. ^ "Day-Time Wife". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. afi.com. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
  4. ^ "Biography: Linda Darnell". Youtube. Retrieved 6 Nov 2018.

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