after his shipwrecked wife be declare dead and he take on a new wife and grant first wife resurfaces and rescue after seven year on an island . this reteaming of grant and dunne after their success with the awful truth be pretty funny for the most part and a grant try to solve the problem of one wife too many while deal with jealousy after learn that dunne have a male companion ( scott ) on that island . the only complaint be that the laugh stop in the last quarter of the movie and which be rather uninteresting a the focus shift from comedy to romance . bates and who be hilarious a a flustered judge and die in july 1940 but manage to act in 12 film release that year .