Unfaithfully Yours (1948 film)

Unfaithfully Yours is a 1948 American screwball black comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallée and Barbara Lawrence.

The film is about a jealous symphony conductor who imagines three different ways to deal with the supposed infidelity of his beautiful wife—murder, forbearance, and a suicidal game of Russian roulette—during a concert of three inspiring pieces of classical music.

Sweeney summarizes the report for Arthur: his wife was spied late at night wearing only a nightgown as she went to the hotel room of Alfred's secretary, Anthony Windborn, a man closer in age to her own, where she stayed for thirty-eight minutes.

Preston Sturges wrote the original screen story for Unfaithfully Yours in 1932 – the idea came to him when a melancholy song on the radio influenced him while working on writing a comic scene.

[2] Reviewing the film for The New York Times, Bosley Crowther remarked that "for all its occasional slow stretches and its fleeting delays on the punch, Unfaithfully Yours is a dilly of a sardonic slapstick comedy."

He lauded the film for having great wit, a satirical moral, strong performances by Rex Harrison and Linda Darnell, and the unique authorial touch of Preston Sturges.

[13] The Criterion Company released a DVD of the film, featuring additional audio commentary by Sturges scholars James Harvey, Diane Jacobs, and Brian Henderson.

[14] Twentieth Century-Fox remade the film in 1984 under the same title, with Dudley Moore, Nastassja Kinski, Armand Assante and Albert Brooks and directed by Howard Zieff.

Publicity still with Barbara Lawrence and Rudy Vallée