this splendid comedy be the one about the wife who come back from the dead only to find her husband and just that morning and remarry . of course and she be never dead in the first place but strand on a desert island with a hunky athlete a her only companion . the resulting complication be the stuff of a classic screwball farce and when the husband be cary grant and the wife be irene dunne and the writer be sam and bella spewack you know you have a winner on your hand . bit of this movie have find their way into homage to the genre over the year and the whole thing be remake in 1963 a a vehicle for doris day and with considerably less zing . leo mccarey and who direct grant and dunne in the awful truth and ( and win an oscar for do so ) and act a producer here and leave the direction to garson kanin who make a very fine job of it . the support cast be pretty top notch as well and with terrific cameo from donald mc bride a an hotel clerk and granville bates a a somewhat bewildered judge . even the child can act in this one and aren not in the least obnoxious in the way of most american moppet of the period .