Carole Lombard, whose sacred name has been raised here, would have signed an exclusive contract with Warner Brothers and this would have gone to her, no question. Maybe she would have been considered for The Man Who Came to Dinner, too. Lombard was nowhere near as good a dramatic actress as Davis, Davis was nowhere near Lombard when it came to pulling this sort of movie off. We will never know. Hard to imagine Lombard and Davis battling it out for scripts though. Imagine Lombard in Now Voyager. Nup. Some things, alas, may just be best left alone.
Review of The Bride Came C.O.D.
