Dream Wife
5.9
“It's a RIOT how Cary carries on!”
Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough pleasure on the part of Effie. When Clemson meets Tarji, a princess trained in all the arts of pleasing men, he decides he wants an old fashioned girl. Princess Tarji's father is king of oil-rich Bukistan. Because of the oil situation and to maintain good political relations during the courtship between Clemson & Tarji, the State Department assigns a diplomat to maintain protocol until the wedding - Effie!
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Cast
17 people
Cary Grant
Clemson Reade
Known for
North by Northwest
Notorious
Deborah Kerr
Effie
Known for
The Innocents
Black Narcissus
Walter Pidgeon
Walter McBride
Known for
Forbidden Planet
How Green Was My Valley
Betta St. John
Tarji
Known for
The City of the Dead
The Robe
Eduard Franz
Khan
Known for
The Thing from Another World
The Ten Commandments
Buddy Baer
Vizier
Known for
Quo Vadis
Jack and the Beanstalk
Les Tremayne
Ken Landwell
Known for
North by Northwest
The War of the Worlds
Donald Randolph
Ali
Known for
The Deadly Mantis
Topaz
Bruce Bennett
Charlie Elkwood
Known for
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Dark Passage
Richard Anderson
Henry Malvine
Known for
The Six Million Dollar Man
Paths of Glory
Dan Tobin
Mr. Brown
Known for
Herbie Rides Again
The Big Clock
Movita
Rima
Known for
Mutiny on the Bounty
Fort Apache
Sidney Sheldon Director · Herbert Baker Writer Conrad Salinger Composer
Worldwide gross $1.9M · Budget $1.6M · United States release June 19, 1953
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Budget
$1,565,000
Worldwide gross
$1,885,000
Gross vs. budget
1.2×
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production · Studio
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · June 19, 1953
Theatrical
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