The Gay Bride

1934
A
1h 20m

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Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, and Nat Pendleton in The Gay Bride (1934)

After a bootlegger's adversary has him killed, he takes up with his widow, a gold-digging chorus girl, but a handsome bodyguard is also determined to win her.After a bootlegger's adversary has him killed, he takes up with his widow, a gold-digging chorus girl, but a handsome bodyguard is also determined to win her.After a bootlegger's adversary has him killed, he takes up with his widow, a gold-digging chorus girl, but a handsome bodyguard is also determined to win her.

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6.4/10

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Carole Lombard

Mary

Chester Morris

Office Boy

Zasu Pitts

Mirabelle

Leo Carrillo

Mickey

Nat Pendleton

Shoots Magiz

Sam Hardy

Dingle

Walter Walker

MacPherson

Norman Ainsley

Waiter
(uncredited)

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

Second Bootblack
(uncredited)

Irving Bacon

Weight-Guesser
(uncredited)

Jack Baxley

$100 Rercipient
(uncredited)

Brooks Benedict

Wedding Guest
(uncredited)

Francis X. Bushman Jr.

Mirabelle's Pickup
(uncredited)

Jules Cowles

$100 Recipient
(uncredited)

Frank Darien

Mr. Bartlett
(uncredited)

Max Davidson

$100 Recipient
(uncredited)

Gordon De Main

Police Sergeant
(uncredited)

Clay Drew

Stage Doorman
(uncredited)

Director
- Jack Conway
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5/10

Gold Digger of 1934

Carole Lombard knocks off the men in sequence: Nat Pendleton, Sam Hardy, Leo Carrillo. Gangsters all, they fall for her and endow her with all their worldly goods -- which, given repeal and the downturn in business isn't as much as she hopes -- and then they knock off each other.

The speculation is this started off a a racy movie, but was castrated by the Production Code. Lombard is fairly erratic. The careful modulation needed for her character isn't there, and while she's very good in her scenes with Zasu Pitts, director Jack Conway can't get her to tone it down with her scenes with Pendleton and Chester Morris. Morris, however, is terrific throughout.

Conway directs this for speed. He certainly gives it his all, but it falls a little flat.

boblipton
Jan 16, 2019
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Trivia
This was one of Carole Lombard's least favorites among her own filmography. Chester Morris also thought during filming that the movie was a "turkey". Sadly, the newly enforced Production Code had laundered the script beyond recognition, and dulled its impact. Nine months earlier, it would have been a different story.

Goofs
The story supposedly takes place in New York City, but during the automobile chase near the end of the film the principals in their Mercedes drive up Grand Avenue in Los Angeles, passing the Mayflower Hotel, and in and out of the Grand Central Garage. In another scene they pop into a hotel lobby with Hotel Stowell, located on South Spring Street, in Los Angeles, in the background. (In fairness, Los Angeles was not a popular vacation destination until the 1950s, so the vast majority of moviegoers at the time would not have noticed this.)

Quotes
Mirabelle: There's no sense to marrying a racketeer. They don't live long.
Mary Magiz: Well, what's wrong with that?

Connections
Featured in The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)

Soundtracks
Mississippi Honeymoon
Music by Walter Donaldson
Lyrics by Gus Kahn
Sung by Arthur Jarrett in the show
Incorporated often into the music score