{{short description|1934 film by Richard Thorpe}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = Strange Wives | image = Strange Wives poster.jpg | alt = | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Richard Thorpe | producer = Stanley Bergerman | screenplay = James Mulhauser<br>Barry Trivers<br>Gladys Buchanan Unger | starring = Roger Pryor<br>June Clayworth<br>Esther Ralston<br>Hugh O'Connell<br>Ralph Forbes<br>Cesar Romero | music = Edward Ward | cinematography = George Robinson | editing = Edward Curtiss | studio = Universal Pictures | distributor = Universal Pictures | released = {{Film date|1934|12|10}} | runtime = 75 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }}

'''''Strange Wives''''' is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe, written by James Mulhauser, Barry Trivers, and Gladys Buchanan Unger, and starring Roger Pryor, June Clayworth, Esther Ralston, Hugh O'Connell, Ralph Forbes, and Cesar Romero. It was released on December 10, 1934, by Universal Pictures.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91615/strange-wives |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929073335/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91615/Strange-Wives/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 29, 2015 |title=Strange Wives (1934) - Overview |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=2016-01-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Sandra Brennan |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/strange-wives-v111957 |title=Strange Wives (1935) - Richard Thorpe &#124; Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related |publisher=AllMovie |access-date=2016-01-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=1164 |title=Strange Wives |publisher=Afi.com |access-date=2016-01-15}}</ref>

==Plot== <!-- {{no plot|date=January 2016}} --> Against his better judgment, stockbroker Jimmy King proposes marriage to a Russian refugee called Nadja, promptly complicating his life. He ends up supporting Nadja and all of her family, then must come up with a clever way of getting them all to be self-reliant and out of his house.

==Cast== {{Cast listing| *Roger Pryor as Jimmy King *June Clayworth as Nadja *Esther Ralston as Olga *Hugh O'Connell as Warren *Ralph Forbes as Paul *Cesar Romero as Boris *Francis L. Sullivan as Bellamy *Valerie Hobson as Mauna *Leslie Fenton as Svengaart *Ivan Lebedeff as Dimitri *Doris Lloyd as Mrs. Sleeper *Claude Gillingwater as Guggins *Carrie Daumery as The Princess *Walter Walker as The General *Greta Meyer as Hilda *Harry Cording as Tribesman *Buster Phelps as Twin *Dickie Jones as Twin *Phyllis Brooks as The Actress *Leonid Snegoff as Head waiter *Anne O'Neal as Jim's Secretary *Robert Gordon as Elevator boy *Neal Dodd as Minister *Joseph Crehan as Immigration Official *George Hackathorne as Guggin's Secretary *Olaf Hytten as Jim's Butler *Jean Fenwick as Jim's Secretary *Nicholas Kobliansky as Waiter *Victor De Linsky as Russian Priest *Harry Cornell as Man *Ralph Brooks as Chauffeur }}

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== External links == * {{IMDb title|0027051|Strange Wives}}

{{Richard Thorpe}} {{Edith Wharton}}

Category:1934 films Category:1934 English-language films Category:American comedy films Category:1934 comedy films Category:Universal Pictures films Category:Films based on works by Edith Wharton Category:Films directed by Richard Thorpe Category:American black-and-white films Category:1934 American films Category:English-language comedy films

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