Misbehaving Husbands is a 1940 American comedy film directed by William Beaudine for Producers Releasing Corporation.

Absent-minded department store owner Henry Butler (Harry Langdon), forgetting his wedding anniversary, ends up working late and missing the surprise party thrown by his wife, Effie (Betty Blythe).

Her friend, Grace Norman (Esther Muir), and an unscrupulous lawyer, Gilbert Wayne (Gayne Whitman), urged her to file for a divorce.

Due to Henry's alleged violent temper, Effie's lawyer demands that she have a bodyguard: a thug named Gooch (Frank Hagney) who stays at the home.

(inside joke: Ralph Byrd played detective Dick Tracy, in four movie serials and two feature films, from 1937 to 1947, and on television.

Buell was friendly with William Beaudine, who had been a top director until an ill-fated business trip to England resulted in depleted finances and fewer opportunities to work.