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      • Three for the Show is a 1955 Technicolor and in CinemaScope musical comedy remake of Too Many Husbands. It stars actress Betty Grable, in her last musical, opposite Jack Lemmon, Gower Champion and Marge Champion. It is based on the 1919 play Home and Beauty by W. Somerset Maugham, which was retitled to Too Many Husbands when it came to New York.


      Plot


      Singing-and-dancing stage star Julie (Betty Grable) is told that husband Marty (Jack Lemmon) is reported missing in action during the Korean War. After a long waiting period, she makes plans to marry Vernon (Gower Champion), who is Marty's best friend. After the marriage, Marty (who crashed but survived on an island) turns up at one of Julie's shows. Upon discovering Julie's new marriage, Marty demands his rights as her first husband.
      Julie finds that she is legally married to both Marty and Vernon. She soon realises that she must choose who she wants to be with, if only to avoid being branded a bigamist. But Julie loves the idea of having two husbands and so she decides to try to live with them both, to the annoyance and disapproval of Marty and Vernon who both know that her idea will not work out.
      Meanwhile, Julie's close friend Gwen (Marge Champion) has a secret crush on Marty and hopes to be with him, if only Julie could make her up mind as to who she wants. After a long serious decision and a talk with them both, Julie decides that she is more in love with Marty and she leaves Vernon, who has now fallen for Gwen.


      Cast


      Betty Grable as Julie Lowndes
      Jack Lemmon as Martin 'Marty' Stewart
      Gower Champion as Vernon Lowndes
      Marge Champion as Gwen Howard
      Myron McCormick as Mike Hudson
      Paul Harvey as Col. Harold J. Wharton
      Robert Bice as Sgt. Charlie O'Hallihan
      Charlotte Lawrence as Miss Williams


      Reception


      The New York Times called the film a "slight but cheerful item" and said "Three for the Show does serve to bring Betty Grable back to the screen. Luminously blonde and shapely enough to give the megrims to most of the readers of fan magazines, Miss Grable proves she can fill a musical, assignment as neatly as she does her pleasantly revealing wardrobe.


      Songs




      See also


      List of American films of 1955
      My Favorite Wife, a 1940 film, in which it is the wife (played by Irene Dunne) who returns, just as her husband (Cary Grant) embarks on his honeymoon
      Move Over, Darling, the 1963 remake of My Favorite Wife, starring Doris Day, James Garner, and Polly Bergen


      References




      External links


      Three for the Show at IMDb
      Three for the Show at Rotten Tomatoes
      ‹The template AllMovie title is being considered for deletion.› Three for the Show at AllMovie
      Three for the Show at the TCM Movie Database
      Three for the Show at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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