June Bride (1948)A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong... Director:Bretaigne Windust |
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June Bride (1948)A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong... Director:Bretaigne Windust |
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| Bette Davis | ... |
Linda Gilman
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| Robert Montgomery | ... |
Carey Jackson
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Fay Bainter | ... |
Paula Winthrop
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| Betty Lynn | ... |
Barbara 'Boo' Brinker
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Tom Tully | ... |
Mr. Whitman Brinker
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| Barbara Bates | ... |
Jeanne Brinker
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Jerome Cowan | ... |
Carleton Towne
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| Mary Wickes | ... |
Rosemary McNally
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James Burke | ... |
Luke Potter
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Raymond Roe | ... |
Bud Mitchell
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Marjorie Bennett | ... |
Mrs. Nellie Brinker
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Ray Montgomery | ... |
Jim Mitchell
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George O'Hanlon | ... |
Scott Davis
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Foreign correspondent Carey Jackson is offered a job on Home Life, a "women's" magazine; he accepts when he finds the editor is his old flame Linda Gilman. Verbal pyrotechnics fly between Carey and Linda as they go to Indiana to cover the Brinker family's "typical American wedding." But triangles lurk beneath the surface of the impending nuptials. Can Carey rescue a story (and his job) out of the wreckage? Can all the sundered hearts be re-united? Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Fitfully amusing for the cast, especially the supporting characters, but the dated material is done in by a weak script. The Davis-Montgomery relationship is core of the film. The chemistry shows promise at the outset, but has really evaporated by the film's end. Davis is watchable, although her performance is variable; Montgomery gets more annoying as things progress and is particularly done in by the strained plotline. Here is an actor who has more mannerisms than Bette Davis (and they don't serve the picture as well). The ending probably annoyed audiences even back in 1948--it certainly doesn't play well in 2003! One wonders what went through Bette Davis's mind during the final scene, considering that this movie was made at time when she was having her famous contract feuds with the Warner Brothers. Was Jack Warner getting back at her?