Meet the Bride (1937) User Reviews

Sharing A Wife

[boblipton · 6/10 · 21 March 2024]

Pat Rooney Jr. Gets a raise from his boss because he has just gotten married. Meanwhile, friend Herman Timberg Jr. Wants to get married, but can't on his salary. So he tells his boss he is married, and the raise is forthcoming. But then both bosses drop by the neighboring apartments on the same evening, and Rooney's wife, Sally Starr, has to pretend to be both of their wives.

Good performance by George Shelton and Ed Garvie as the pompous and dull bosses -- "and then I opened my sixth factory" -- add to the peculiar delights of this movie, and both of the leads do a spot of eccentric dancing.

Two bosses, two employees, one wife.

[mark.waltz · 6/10 · 29 April 2024]

The bosses have tongue twisting names, which leads to all sorts of amusing mispronounced variations, and a funny plot that leads to plenty of complications. This Pat Rooney Jr. And Herman Timberg Jr. Short features them as pals who must share a wife for the evening due to the misunderstanding that they're both married. Rooney is, but Timberg isn't, so Rooney's wife (Sally Starr) poses as his wife as well.

She's already busy running back and forth when one of the bosses wants to visit the neighbors and they have to explain falsely that Starr is a twin. Of course more confusion follows which culminates with the arrival of Timberg's girlfriend. The two bosses are presented delightfully silly in their seriousness over their business, pompous and short sighted, dull as dishwater socially and yet somehow come around. I liked it in spite of the fact that the situation is completely absurd, but isn't that the case for most two reeler shorts of the 1930's?