- HD 1080
- Runtime: 73m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Phil Karlson
- Stars: Kay Francis, Paul Cavanagh, Robert Shayne, Veda Ann Borg, Teala Loring
- keywords: b movie
- Production_studio: Monogram Pictures
- Slogan: Here's The Whole Shocking Story Of So-Called "Friendship Clubs" That Sell Marriage, Companionship and Romance, But Deliver Shame and Extortion!
- The Wife Wanted is featured in the top rankings of 1946
- #25 in Top Drama Movies of 1946
- #12 in Top Crime Movies of 1946
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole, unknowingly, is used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond, who "commits suicide." Reporter William Tyler thinks otherwise.