The plot centres on a woman who believes her husband has perished in a boating accident and remarries, only to have her first spouse reappear.

The film is based on the 1919 W. Somerset Maugham play Home and Beauty, which was itself retitled Too Many Husbands when it came to New York, and itself takes inspiration from the 1864 Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem Enoch Arden.

[1] In April 1947, a radio adaptation of the film starring Lucille Ball, Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra aired as an episode of The Screen Guild Theater.

Vicky Lowndes loses her first husband, Bill Cardew, when he is lost at sea, presumed drowned, and declared legally dead.

He calls home and speaks with Vicky’s father, George, convincing his skeptical father-in-law that he has returned.

When Vicky finally explains, Henry accuses Bill of having faked evidence of his death to avoid the 5-year waiting period for a missing person to be declared dead.

Distrusting each other, two men sleep in a shared bedroom, keeping an eye out to make sure neither tries to enter Vicky’s room.

The men end up in a fight to reveal Bill’s blank slip of paper, which he attempts to swallow.

Lowndes” explains that there has been a misunderstanding, and that Mr. Cardew is a “friend.” The butler and Vicky’s father confirm she is married to “Mr.