The Doctor Takes a Wife

6/5/2025

“June” (Loretta Young) is searching for material for her follow-up book to her successful tome extolling the virtues of spinsterhood and illustrating that women don’t need a man in their lives at all! Meantime, university professor “Tim” (Ray Milland) happens to encounter this woman whilst he is trying to make a long distance phone call and next thing he is giving her a lift, ends up with a broken nose and a five dollar bar credit in her living room! Before they know it, her publisher (Reginald Gardiner) arrives whilst “Tim” is only semi clad, hungover and people are soon starting to make outrageous assumptions about their fledgling relationship. What now ensues does rather follow the established pattern as the two vacillate between loathing and intolerance to, well you can guess that bit…