ksf-2 Review of Brides Are Like That

Brides Are Like That (1936)

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[6/10 · 23 January 2010]

Made a couple years into the movie code enforcement, we'll have to keep those expectations in check. About this time, the plays were all turned into movies, and a lot was lost in translation. Lots of FAST talking. Anita Louise is Hazel. Watch for real husband and wife team Gene and Kathleen Lockhart in this one. Ross Alexander is the dashing lover- boy Bill McAllister, who is all over Hazel. Alexander and his second wife both committed suicide by gunshot, acc to Wikipedia.org and IMDb, which is pretty freaky....because... in "Brides Are Like That", he ACTUALLY SAYS " Cheer up, honey. I'm not going to shoot myself" when Hazel turns down his marriage proposal. Truth is stranger than fiction. Dick Purcell is Randoph Jenkins, to whom she has promised herself. Written by Barry Conners, who had also written a couple of the Charlie Chans. Directed by William McGann who worked in various positions in the silents. It's OK... Best performances here were by Joe Crehan and Gene Lockhart the costume party dance. Looks like this was remade as "Always A Bride" with George Reeves, the original Superman; haven't seen that one; will have to try to catch it.