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Director:
Sidney Lanfield
Writers:
Claude Binyon (screenplay)
Robert Russell (screenplay)
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Release Date:
17 May 1946 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Tagline:
THE BRIDE SAW RED...WHITE...and BLEW! (original print media ad - almost all caps)
Plot:
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding... more | add synopsis
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The sparkle is missing in flat comedy more (3 total)

Cast

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Olivia de Havilland ... Margie Dawson

Ray Milland ... Lt. Dudley Briggs
Sonny Tufts ... Lt. Torchy McNeil
James Gleason ... Capt. Hornby
Constance Dowling ... Rita Sloane
Percy Kilbride ... Mr. Dawson
Jean Heather ... Wickley
Jay Norris ... Mitch
John R. Reilly ... Buck (as Jack Reilly)
George Turner ... Goose
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Runtime:
75 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Finland:S | Sweden:15
Company:
Paramount Pictures more

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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. more

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The sparkle is missing in flat comedy, 12 March 2001
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Author: Neil Doyle from U.S.A.

Before Olivia de Havilland made her remarkable comeback in 1946's To Each His Own, she stepped in as a last minute replacement for Paulette Goddard in 'The Well Groomed Bride', her first film after her two year legal battle with Warner Bros. Unfortunately, the script is so slight (about de Havilland and Milland fighting over rights to the last champagne bottle in San Francisco--she wants it for her wedding, he wants it to christen a ship). The laughs are scant although Olivia, Ray Milland and Sonny Tufts try hard to keep things bubbling. De Havilland manages to be pert and pretty as the heroine, Milland is his usual adept self at comedy and even Sonny Tufts manages to make his big "conceited muscle" role likeable at times--but the whole thing fails to get off the ground. The weak script defeats everyone, including Percy Kilbride as de Havilland's dad. Only avid fans of Ray Milland or de Havilland should watch this one--which does not turn up on TV these days--Paramount obviously deciding it wasn't worth saving.

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