''Strange Wives'' is a 1934 American

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directed by

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, written by James Mulhauser, Barry Trivers, and Gladys Buchanan Unger, and starring Roger Pryor,

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, Hugh O'Connell,

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, and

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. It was released on December 10, 1934, by

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Plot

Against his better judgment, stockbroker Jimmy King proposes marriage to a Russian refugee called Nadja, promptly complicating his life. He ends up supporting Nadja and all of her family, then must come up with a clever way of getting them all to be self-reliant and out of his house.

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* 1934 films 1930s English-language films American comedy films 1934 comedy films Universal Pictures films Films based on works by Edith Wharton Films directed by Richard Thorpe American black-and-white films 1930s American films English-language comedy films {{1930s-comedy-film-stub