| Second Honeymoon | |
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Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Walter Lang |
| Written by | Kathryn Scola Darrell Ware |
| Story by | Philip Wylie |
| Produced by | Raymond Griffith |
| Starring | Tyrone Power Loretta Young Stuart Erwin |
| Cinematography | Ernest Palmer |
| Edited by | Walter Thompson |
| Music by | Cyril J. Mockridge |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Second Honeymoon is a 1937 Americanscrewballromantic comedy film directed byWalter Lang and starringTyrone Power,Loretta Young andStuart Erwin. Based on a story byPhilip Wylie it was distributed byTwentieth Century-Fox. Acomedy of remarriage, it was overshadowed by the similarThe Awful Truth released the same year.[1]
In 1942, Twentieth Century-Fox released another film based on the same source, entitledSpringtime in the Rockies, which was directed byIrving Cummings and starredBetty Grable,John Payne,Carmen Miranda andCesar Romero.
The newly remarried Vicky (Loretta Young) is on vacation inPalm Beach with her second husband Bob Benton (Lyle Talbot) a Yale-man. One night Vicky finds her first husband Raoul McLiesh (Tyrone Power) on the terrace of the ballroom, and they skip between kissing as if they never divorced and the distant way of two not married people. As he is introduced to her second husband Bob, they have a certain complicity against Vicky, and McLiesh not only finds himself with a valet - Leo MacTavish (Stuart Erwin) - but also with araccoon, sent him from Bob. He decides to stay at the hotel as his first wife seems more beautiful than ever.The next evening McLiesh brings a young girl - a cigarette-girl met on the road somewhere, Joy (Marjorie Weaver), who makes Vicky jealous, as her husband flirts with her.While businessman husband Bob has to leave, Vicky and Raoul get closer.
"You're the only real thing that ever happened to me. Don't let me go this time, please don't!" Vicky says one night to Raoul. And while Raoul's valet Leo McTavish marries Joy, Bob, Vicky and Raoul are in a storm of emotions trying to find their way to one or another.
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