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The Bride Wore Red Overview:

The Bride Wore Red (1937) was a Comedy - Drama Film directed by Dorothy Arzner and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

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When an eccentric Italian count seeks to prove that social position is nothing more than a matter of luck, he sends chanteuse Crawford to a luxurious Swiss resort masquerading as a wealthy lady. She woos a rich bachelor away from his fiancee only to discover she is falling in love with the town's postman.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

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The Bride Wore Red (1937)

By Franchot Tone Fan on Jul 30, 2016 From Finding Franchot: Exploring the Life and Career of Franchot Tone

In celebration of Joan and In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood's Joan Crawford Blogathon, I am excited to write about my favorite Crawford-Tone film, The Bride Wore Red. Directed by Dorothy Arzner, the screenplay (written by Tess Slesinger and Bradbury Foote) is based on Molnár's play The Bri... Read full article

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The Bride Wore Red Quotes:

Count Rudi Armalia: Waiters are notoriously better-mannered than those they serve.
Anni Pavlovitch: I want you to marry her, and I want my love to haunt you...to make you lie awake at night, to burn your heart, to make you sick with pain! I want you to think of me and to ache for me. I want never to see you again!
Contessa di Meina: What interesting knees you have, Admiral. Those are knees, aren't they?
Admiral Monti: They were.
Count Rudi Armalia: Very superior waiter. Very superior man, probably. Pity no-one will ever know.
Contessa di Meina: I can imagine nothing of less interest to the rest of us.
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The Bride Wore Red Facts
This was the film that got Joan Crawford labeled "box office poison" after a series of flops.
Originally, in 1937, Dorothy Arzner had been assigned by MGM producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz in 1937 to direct Luise Rainer in "The Girl from Trieste," an unperformed Ferenc Molnár play about a prostitute trying to reform herself who discovers the hypocrisies of the respectable class which she aspires to. After the death of Irving Thalberg, Louis B. Mayer was put in charge of MGM. Mayer disliked the perceived exploitation of the female lead's character, and insisted that Molnár's play be rewritten so that it was no longer about a prostitute, but instead a slightly dark Cinderella story with a happy ending. Retitled by Mankiewicz as The Bride Wore Red, Rainer withdrew and was replaced by Joan Crawford.
Probably the real "star" of the film, and the source of its title, was the red beaded gown by Adrian, worn by Joan Crawford in the climactic ball scene. The dress was reused in fashion show sequences in The Big Store and, finally in color, in Du Barry Was a Lady.
Three cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names): Anna Demetrio (Signora Milani), George W. Jimenez (Signor Calla) and Abe Dinovitch (Yodeller). Child actor Bill Burrud is listed as a cast member in some contemporary newspapers, but he was not seen either.
Ferenc Molnár's play was unpublished and called "The Girl from Trieste."
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