When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
Acting
Eve Arden's dry delivery steals every scene she's in.
Writing
Pre-Code cheekiness smuggled into 1950 with a wink.
Director
Irving Reis
Eve Arden
Lucille McCabe
Ruth Warrick
Jane Evans
Vanessa Brown
Mary Whittaker
Howard Da Silva
Dan McCabe
Shepperd Strudwick
Arthur Evans
Robert Karnes
Kenneth Whittaker
Emlyn Williams
Maxwell Bard
Billie Burke
Mrs. Jenny Bard Whittaker
Louise Erickson
Matilda Clegg
Jonathan Hale
Edward Wurdeman - Attorney at Law
Jane Darwell
Mrs. Wurdeman
Frank Cady
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Philip Carey
Officer McCarthy (uncredited)
Jack Chefe
Movie House Patron (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
RKO rushed this out to capitalize on A Letter to Three Wives' success—yes, it's basically the gender-flopped cash grab.
Howard Da Silva was blacklisted months after release; this became one of his final Hollywood roles for years.
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