| Are Husbands Necessary? | |
| Director: | Norman Taurog |
| Producer: | Fred Kohlmar |
| Starring: | Ray Milland Betty Field Patricia Morison |
| Music: | Robert Emmett Dolan |
| Cinematography: | Charles Lang |
| Editing: | LeRoy Stone |
| Studio: | Paramount Pictures |
| Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
| Runtime: | 80 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $552,000.[1] |
| Gross: | $1,050,000 (US rentals)[2] |
Are Husbands Necessary? is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Ray Milland and Betty Field.[3] It follows the misadventures of a wacky wife and her sometimes exasperated, but loving, banker husband. The film's screenplay was adapted by the husband-and-wife writing team of Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis, from the novel Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage by Isabel Scott Rorick. This novel would later be a source for the related 1948 radio series My Favorite Husband starring Lucille Ball, which itself would evolve into the television series I Love Lucy.
A one-hour Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film, featuring George Burns and Gracie Allen, aired February 15, 1943, on CBS Radio.[4]