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{{Short description|1956 British film by Gilbert Gunn}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = My Wife's Family
| image = "My_Wife's_Family"_(1956_film).jpg
| caption = Original British quad poster
| director = [[Gilbert Gunn]]
| producer = Hamilton G. Inglis
| writer = Gilbert Gunn<br>[[Talbot Rothwell]]
| based_on = ''[[My Wife's Family (play)|My Wife's Family]]'' by [[Fred Duprez]]
| starring = [[Ronald Shiner]]<br>[[Ted Ray (comedian)|Ted Ray]]<br> [[Greta Gynt]]<br>[[Robertson Hare]]
| music = [[Ray Martin (orchestra leader)|Ray Martin]]
| cinematography = [[Gilbert Taylor]]
| editing = Edward B. Jarvis
| studio = Forth Films
| distributor = [[Associated British-Pathé]] (UK)
| released = {{Film date|1956|11||UK}}
| runtime = 76 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
}}
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'''''My Wife's Family''''' is a 1956 [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Gilbert Gunn]] and starring [[Ronald Shiner]], [[Ted Ray (comedian)|Ted Ray]], [[Greta Gynt]], [[Diane Hart]] and [[Robertson Hare]].<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=My Wife's Family |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150032700 |access-date=22 May 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120712004508/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b12b09b BFI]</ref> It was written by Gunn and [[Talbot Rothwell]].

==Plot==
Jack Gay, a newlywed with a dominating mother-in-law attempts to surprise his wife Stella with a baby grand piano, but when she overhears him discussing it, she mistakes it for an illegitimate child, particularly with the arrival of his ex-girlfriend, the blonde and glamorous Gloria Marsh.<ref name="allmovie1">{{Cite web |title=My Wife's Family (1956) - Gilbert Gunn | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/my-wifes-family-v103442}}</ref>

==Cast==
*[[Ronald Shiner]] as Doc Knott
*[[Ted Ray (comedian)|Ted Ray]] as Jack Gay
*[[Diane Hart]] as Stella Gay
*[[Fabia Drake]] as Arabella
*[[Greta Gynt]] as Gloria Marsh
*[[Robertson Hare]] as Noah
*[[Zena Marshall]] as Hilda
*Jessica Cairns as Irma
*[[Benny Lee]] as Arnold
*Jimmy Mageean as Dobson
*[[Gilbert Harding]] as himself

==Production==
It was a remake of the 1941 British film ''[[My Wife's Family (1941 film)|My Wife's Family]]'',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Richards |first1=Jeffrey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bck6oHB6_AwC&q=my+wife%27s+family+1956+ronald+shiner&pg=PA144 |title=Films and British National Identity: From Dickens to Dad's Army - Jeffrey Richards - Google Books |date=1997-09-15 |isbn=9780719047435 |accessdate=2014-06-27}}</ref> and is the third British film of the [[My Wife's Family (play)|stage farce of the same name]] by actor [[Fred Duprez]].<ref name="allmovie1" />

==Critical reception==
''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote: "A further adaptation of the slapstick comedy by Fred Duprez (previously filmed in 1931 and 1941), this new production, in colour, serves as a vehicle for two comedians with agreeably contrasting personalities. Ronald Shiner as Doc Knott gives a robust display of over-confidence, while Ted Ray successfully suggests the harassed Jack. But their determined efforts are largely defeated by the lack of originality in both dialogue and situations. Of the supporting players, Fabia Drake makes an imposing Arabella and Robertson Hare gives his customary caricature of the hen-pecked husband."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1957 |title=My Wife's Family |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305823454/D285E923B3534670PQ/2 |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=24 |issue=276 |pages=8 |via=ProQuest}}</ref>

''[[TV Guide]]'' wrote, "The third screen version of Fred Duprez's play proves once and for all there's no hope of reviving the dead... Overplayed without shame, but that doesn't help the ancient jokes any."<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://movies.tvguide.com/my-wifes-family/review/107103 |title = My Wife's Family | TV Guide}}</ref>

''[[Sky Movies]]'' noted a "broad comedy, with Ronald Shiner and Ted Ray extracting the maximum number of laughs out of the mother-in-law-coming-to-stay situation. Fabia Drake gives a sharply-observed portrait of the old battleaxe."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://skymovies.sky.com/my-wifes-family/review |title=My Wife's Family - Sky Movies HD |accessdate=2014-06-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20140628112342/http://skymovies.sky.com/my-wifes-family/review |archivedate=28 June 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==

* {{IMDb title|0249821|My Wife's Family}}
{{Gilbert Gunn}}

[[Category:1956 films]]
[[Category:1956 comedy films]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:Films shot at Associated British Studios]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Talbot Rothwell]]
[[Category:British films based on plays]]
[[Category:Remakes of British films]]
[[Category:1950s English-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Gilbert Gunn]]
[[Category:1950s British films]]
[[Category:English-language comedy films]]

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