Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Telling the story of a lady of disrepute who leaps from the oblivion of a Hollywood dive to the magnificence of a Hollywood winter resort, "The Bride Wore Red" gives itself away almost before it starts, so obvious is the plot. In fact the film's greatest asset is the fact that it suffers no illusions as to its own importance. Pleasantly it wends its way, and pleasantly it will affect the cinematic taste of the semi-sentimental moviegoer...
Brilliantly adapted by Jo Swerling from a play by Ferenc Molnar, played up to the hubcaps by cinema's most famed comedy couple and high-class supporters, Double Wedding is a 100% sample of the haywire school. Its only flaw is that, with Hollywood's destructive knack for stylizing all its gestures, the technique of haywire comedy has reached a monotonous perfection. After two screwy characters have been established as potential sweethearts and their lives thoroughly scrambled with another couple's, the main element of suspense is what kind of melee the plot can wind...
...engagement, holds her captive even after death, is the rest of the sad story. Redhaired, ingratiating Theodore Newton (Dead End), appeared as the luckless suitor, tries in vain to better matters with dignified restraint. Gloria Dickson, the Pocatello, Idaho girl who stepped from the Federal Theatre into Hollywood fame (They Won't Forget), endowed the young actress with dazzling blondness and a fresh, strong prairie accent. As her sister, Edith Barrett, despite the limp and a tendency to Fletcherize her lines, turned in the best performance...
Just now, the Duke is on the stage at the Metropolitan Theatre. After he finishes there, he may go to Hollywood or go back to the Cotton Club in New York. But before that, he's going to play at the Crimson-Green Ball at the Somerset, before the Dartmouth football game...
...little uneasy, but then the explanation always suggests itself that the embarrassment belongs to the character, and not to the actress. Richard Kendrick makes an excellent Keith Burgess, the Communist who thought better of it when he made some money, and Douglas Gilmore is a dignified victim of Hollywood's rapacity. The cast, however, is a huge one, and no small part of the interest comes from studying the various members of the Footlight Club. Having only two hours in which to work, Mr. Kaufman and Miss Ferber have made an amazing number of young women stand out as real...