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{{Infobox film
| name = My Wife's Family
| image =
| caption =
| director = [[Walter C. Mycroft]]
| producer = Walter C. Mycroft
| writer = {{ubl|[[Clifford Grey]]|[[Norman Lee]]}}
| based_on = ''[[My Wife's Family (play)|My Wife's Family]]'' by [[Fred Duprez]] (story by Harry B. Linton and Hal Stephens)
| starring = {{ubl|Charles Clapham|[[John Warwick]]|[[David Tomlinson]]|[[Patricia Roc]]}}
| music = [[Charles Williams (composer)|Charles Williams]]
| cinematography = [[Walter J. Harvey]]
| editing =
| studio = [[Associated British Picture Corporation]]
| distributor = [[Pathé Pictures International]] (UK)
| released = {{Film date|1941|07}}
| runtime = 82 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
}}
'''''My Wife's Family''''' is a 1941 [[UK|British]] domestic [[comedy film]] directed by [[Walter C. Mycroft]] and starring Charles Clapham, [[John Warwick]], [[David Tomlinson]] and [[Patricia Roc]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120713083916/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b12aa97 BFI]</ref>

The film is notable as one of five film versions based on the popular [[My Wife's Family (play)|stage farce of the same name]] by [[Fred Duprez]]. There was a ''[[The Wife's Family|previous British version]]'' in 1931;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6beb6b5b|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712003036/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6beb6b5b|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-12|title=My Wife's Family (1931)}}</ref> a Swedish version ''[[Mother-in-Law's Coming]]'', in 1932;<ref>[[:sv:Svärmor kommer]]</ref> a 1933 Finnish film ''[[Voi meitä! Anoppi tulee]]'';<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7e685fe4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714200801/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7e685fe4 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-07-14 |title=VOI MEITÄ! ANOPPI TULEE (1933) | BFI |publisher=Explore.bfi.org.uk |access-date=2014-06-26}}</ref> and a British [[My Wife's Family (1956 film)|remake]] in 1956.<ref name="allmovie1">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/my-wifes-family-v103441|title=My Wife's Family (1941) - Walter Mycroft - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie|website=AllMovie}}</ref>

== Plot ==
A farce concerning the attempts of a [[naval officer]] to avoid a visit from his wife's overbearing [[mother-in-law]], and cope with a former girlfriend at the same time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/DUPREZ1941MyWifeFamily |title=My Wife's Family (1941) |publisher=Samuel French Limited |date=10 Mar 2001 |access-date=2014-06-25}}</ref>

==Cast==
*Doc Knott - Charles Clapham
*Jack Gay - [[John Warwick]]
*Peggy, his Wife - [[Patricia Roc]]
*Noah Bagshott - [[Wylie Watson]]
*Sally the Maid - [[Peggy Bryan]]
*Rosa Latour - [[Chili Bouchier]]
*Mrs Bagshott - [[Margaret Scudamore]]
*Policeman - [[Leslie Fuller]]
*Second Maid - [[Davina Craig]]
*Irma - [[Joan Greenwood]]
*Willie - [[David Tomlinson]]

== Critical reception ==
''[[TV Guide]]'' wrote, "every old joke you never wanted to hear repeated is packed into this dusty, but still mildly amusing comedy."<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://movies.tvguide.com/my-wifes-family/review/107104 |title=My Wife's Family Review |publisher=T.V. Guide |access-date=2014-06-25}}</ref> [[Allmovie]] gave the film two out of five stars, and referred to the film as an "old-joke-filled farce."<ref name="allmovie1"/>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0033933}}

[[Category:1941 films]]
[[Category:1941 comedy films]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:British black-and-white films]]
[[Category:British films based on plays]]
[[Category:Remakes of British films]]
[[Category:1940s English-language films]]
[[Category:1940s British films]]
[[Category:English-language comedy films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Charles Williams (composer)]]

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