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We're Not Married!

We're Not Married!
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Original film poster
Directed by Edmund Goulding
Produced by Nunnally Johnson
Written by Jay Dratler
Gina Kaus
Dwight Taylor
Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson
Starring See cast section
Cinematography Leo Tover
Edited by Louis R. Loeffler
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date
  • July 11, 1952 (1952-07-11)
Running time
85 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $2 million (US rentals)

We're Not Married! is a 1952 American anthology romantic comedy film, directed by Edmund Goulding and released by 20th Century Fox.

The screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson, while the story was adapted by Dwight Taylor from Gina Kaus's and Jay Dratler's unpublished work "If I Could Remarry".

The film starred Victor Moore, Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Eve Arden, Paul Douglas, Eddie Bracken, and Mitzi Gaynor. Co-stars included Louis Calhern, Zsa Zsa Gabor, James Gleason, Paul Stewart, and Jane Darwell.

When elderly Mr. Bush (Victor Moore) is appointed justice of the peace, he starts marrying couples on Christmas Eve. However, his appointment isn't valid until the first of January. Two years later, this issue becomes known when one of the six couples he married files divorce. To avoid a bigger scandal, the remaining five couples are informed that they are not really married. The film then shows how the couples react to the news:

In the end, all but Couple #4 get remarried.

A sixth segment, starring Hope Emerson and Walter Brennan as an Ozark backwoods unmarried couple, was deleted before the film's release.


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