Bride for Henry (1937)
1937 · Feature film · 58 min · dir. William Nigh
Watch out for the love bug in this daffy comedy of a girl who married one man to spite another...and than took both of them on her honeymoon!
- Comedy
Synopsis
On the day of her wedding a young woman's fiancé doesn't show up, sleeping off the results of the previous night's wild bachelor party. Miffed, the woman decides to go ahead with the wedding anyway to teach her fiancé a lesson, so she calls her lawyer, Henry, and has him stand in for her missing groom. She intends to divorce her new "husband" at the first opportunity, but Henry--who has been in love with her for a long time--is determined to win his "wife's" hand.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- William Nigh
- Writer
- Josephine Bentham
- Cinematography
- Gilbert Warrenton
- Studio
- Monogram Pictures
- Released
- 1937-09-29
- Running time
- 58 minutes
Cast & crew
William Nigh Director
Anne Nagel
Warren Hull
Henry Mollison
Claudia Dell
Betty Ross Clarke
Harry Harvey- Harrison Greene
Richard Cramer
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Snappy and funny! · streetsofyourtown · 2010-07-05
The film did not have me at hello, but definitely at: "I'm going to get quietly, but efficiently plastered." The dialogue is snappy and honestly funny. Due to the short running time the plot is almost awkwardly straight forward, but it also never wastes time on overly sentimental scenes. It also features a great wardrobe!
★★★★ · Made for the silly romantic in all of us · LordOfTheExacto · 2006-10-27
I genuinely enjoyed this one. What's more, I showed it to my kids (who have very little patience for anything older than themselves) and THEY loved it. A not-overly-mature young woman is left at the altar by her fiance, and to get back at him, she marries her lawyer on the spot, unaware that he's been secretly in love with her for some time. The erstwhile fiance shows up on the honeymoon, and the resulting triangle is sweet and hilarious by turns. A tad predictable, perhaps, but still an enjoyable film.
★★★★ · a piece of lovely comedy · sweet-tooth · 2007-09-07
Lovely and silly. I really enjoyed it, although it is cliched and predictable at times. but for a sucker for sweetness like me it's a good watch for a rainy friday afternoon when you need to shut your brain off for a while. It made me smile.
★★★★ · Love that Tuttle! · 1110babe · 2010-01-06
He reminded me of William Holden. I think this could be remade today with one of our current crop of young divas. Funny moments like the bedraggled bouquet of roses, (that instantly became beautiful in the vase). Or the fight scene at the end. It's interesting to read the bios of the three principles and see what went on in their real lives. I thought this was witty and fun, but then I was looking at Tuttle most of the time!
★★★ · Screwball · jimelena · 2006-05-24
It's about a lot of mix ups and interruptions in a wedding. A screwball comedy from Monogram? Not likely. Watch it you'll probably like it. Everyone seems to like what I don't.
