An Ideal Husband
“"An Ideal Husband has to look to his future...a woman has to look to her past!"”
Synopsis
A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.
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Principal cast & crew: 16
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Edited by Oswald HafenrichterShot by Georges PerinalScored by Arthur Benjamin
Also known as
- Ein idealer Gattede
- Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husbanden
- Un marido ideales
- Un mari idéalfr
- Un marito idealeit
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Cast & Crew
16 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Paulette Goddard
as Laura Cheveley
Michael Wilding
as Viscount Arthur Goring
Diana Wynyard
as Lady Gertrude Chiltern
Hugh Williams
as Sir Robert Chiltern
C Aubrey Smith
as The Earl of Caversham
Glynis Johns
as Mabel Chiltern
Constance Collier
as Lady Markby
Christine Norden
as Margaret Marchmont
Harriette Johns
as Lady Olivia Basildon
Michael Medwin
as Duke of Nonsuch
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