Wives and Lovers is a 1963 comedy film based on the play The First Wife by Jay Presson Allen.

Directed by John Rich, it stars Janet Leigh, Van Johnson, Shelley Winters and Martha Hyer.

He is a struggling writer, at least until agent Lucinda Ford breaks the news that she has sold his book to a publisher, including the rights to turn it into a Broadway play.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther wrote: "It's incredible that a screenplay as hackneyed and witless as this one could get past a first front-office reading in this rigid day and age, and it is pathetic that it should be directed as woodenly as this one has been by John Rich ...

It probes a bit deeper and comes up with a still fundamental, ingrained characteristic of most Americans: Although they may make a great outward show of being 'sophisticated' and morally promiscuous, the Puritan in them usually waggles a warning finger when the sheets are really down.