Misbehaving Husbands

2961. MISBEHAVING HUSBANDS (1940-USA). With HARRY LANGDON, BETTY
BLYTHE, RALPH BYRD, BYRON BARR (GIG YOUNG), GAYNE WHITMAN, VERNON DENT. Once again Harry Langdon proves that he is one of the all-time great screen comics in this laugh-filled farce about the divorce plans of a formerly happily married middle-aged couple. Harry plays a mild-mannered workaholic named Henry Butler. Henry owns a department store, and he is so distracted by an upcoming sale that he forgets his wedding anniversary! While he makes final preparations for the sale with a temperamental window dresser (played by a youthful but confident Gig Young in his first screen role), his wife Effie bravely entertains a houseful of guests at their anniversary party. To make matters worse, two of the guests pass Henry’s store while en route to the party and spy him in rather intimate circumstances with a beautiful blonde model. How are they to know that the supposed object of his affection actually is a window mannequin? When Henry arrives home late that night with the model’s spike-heeled shoe in his pocket and a long blonde hair on his lapel, poor Effie slams the bedroom door in his face and calls in an ambitious divorce attorney to end their marriage. From that moment on the once-blissful household of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Butler becomes a war zone. You will seldom experience a more amusing battle of the sexes. This is a fine example of Langdon’s style near the end of his career. 65 minutes Comedy