Every Girl Should Be Married is a 1948 American romantic comedy film directed by Don Hartman and starring Cary Grant, Betsy Drake and Franchot Tone.

In an attempt to make him jealous, she pretends to be waiting for wealthy, three-times-married playboy Roger Sanford, who happens to be her employer and Madison's university classmate.

Every Girl Should Be Married was based on a short story written by Eleanor Harris in an October 1947 edition of the Ladies' Home Journal.

[4] Grant spotted Drake performing in a stage play in London called Deep Are the Roots two years before the film's release.

[7] The film turned out to be a positive experience for both Grant and Drake, with the only downside being that Hughes insisting on becoming actively involved in every aspect of its production, with the result that Schary abruptly resigned from RKO.

Hughes then allowed Grant to rewrite much of the script, and even to instruct director Don Hartman in how to shoot several scenes, so as to shift much of the film's visual emphasis from his character to Drake's.

[8] In the biography Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart, authors Charles Higham and Roy Mosely claimed that "Cary watched every move Betsy made on the set, endlessly checking her out, imitating her cruelly in scenes, and at times encouraging her — mistakenly — to imitate Katharine Hepburn's mannered playing.

[4] Bosley Crowther of The New York Times praised Betsy Drake's performance, saying that she displays "a refreshingly natural comic spirit".

[6] Likewise, the weekly American entertainment trade magazine Variety described Drake's performance in the film as "a tour de force in the romantic comedy vein."