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

Writers:

Ranald MacDougall (screenplay), Eileen Tighe (play),

Stars:

Bette Davis, Robert Montgomery, Fay Bainter

1 nomination.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Bette Davis	...	Linda Gilman
Robert Montgomery	...	Carey Jackson
Fay Bainter	...	Paula Winthrop
Betty Lynn	...	Barbara 'Boo' Brinker
Tom Tully	...	Mr. Whitman Brinker
Barbara Bates	...	Jeanne Brinker
Jerome Cowan	...	Carleton Towne
Mary Wickes	...	Rosemary McNally
James Burke	...	Luke Potter
Raymond Roe	...	Bud Mitchell
Marjorie Bennett	...	Mrs. Nellie Brinker
Ray Montgomery	...	Jim Mitchell
George O'Hanlon	...	Scott Davis

Storyline

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?

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Plot Keywords:

wedding | indiana | magazine | editor | writer | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

29 October 1948 (USA)

Also Known As:

Feature for June

Filming Locations:

Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Edith Head's first time designing costumes for Bette Davis.

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Quotes

Linda Gilman: Corey, this will be a nineteen page feature about five thousand words. Here are my background notes. We'll call it "June Bride".
Carleton Towne: Isn't that a little daring?

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Connections

Featured in AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Bette Davis (1977)

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Soundtracks

"Little Brown Jug"
(uncredited)
Music by Joseph Winner
Played after the men drank the cider

User Reviews

Weak script swamps strong cast

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?