The Bride Comes Home
{{short description|1935 film by Wesley Ruggles}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = The Bride Comes Home
| image = Bridecomeshome.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Wesley Ruggles
| producer = Wesley Ruggles
| screenplay = Claude Binyon
| story = Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
| starring = {{Plainlist|
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| music = Heinz Roemheld
| cinematography = Leo Tover
| editing = Paul Weatherwax
| studio = Paramount Pictures
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1935|12|25|USA}}
| runtime = 83 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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The Bride Comes Home is a 1935 comedy film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Wesley Ruggles, and starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray and Robert Young. It was written by Claude Binyon and Elisabeth Sanxay Holding.
Plot
After the bankruptcy of her father's business, penniless Chicago socialite Jeannette Desmereau (Colbert) works with magazine editor Cyrus Anderson (MacMurray) and publisher Jack Bristow (Young). They discuss love and wedding plans. However, when Bristow and Desmereau set in motion plans to marry, Anderson decides to win her back. This is a romantic comedy with money, bad tempers and love in the balance.
Cast
- Claudette Colbert as Jeannette Desmereau
- Fred MacMurray as Cyrus Anderson
- Robert Young as Jack Bristow
- William Collier, Sr. as Alfred Desmereau
- Donald Meek as The judge
- Richard Carle as Frank (butler)
- Edgar Kennedy as Henry
- Johnny Arthur as Otto
- Kate MacKenna as Emma
- Jimmy Conlin as Len Noble
- Edward Gargan as Cab driver
Critical reception
Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene strongly praised the film as "satirical comedy of a very high order". Emphasizing the performance given by Claudette Colbert, Greene suggested that Colbert's having been given a third role in film (following It Happened One Night and She Married Her Boss) made fact of the claim that "Miss Colbert is the most charming light-comedy actress on the screen".{{cite journal |last= Greene|first= Graham|author-link= Graham Greene|date= 10 January 1936|title= Reifende Jugend/The Bride Comes Home|journal= The Spectator}} (reprinted in: {{cite book|editor-last= Taylor|editor-first= John Russell|editor-link= John Russell Taylor|date= 1980|title= The Pleasure Dome|url= https://archive.org/details/pleasuredomegrah00gree/page/45|pages= [https://archive.org/details/pleasuredomegrah00gree/page/45 45–46]|isbn= 0192812866|url-access= registration}})
References
External links
- {{tcmdb title|id=69658|title=The Bride Comes Home}}
- {{IMDb title|0026137|The Bride Comes Home}}
- [https://www.virtual-history.com/movie/film/27631/the-bride-comes-home The Bride Comes Home] at Virtual History
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Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:Films directed by Wesley Ruggles
Category:1935 romantic comedy films
Category:American romantic comedy films
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:English-language romantic comedy films
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