MGM. 103 minutes.
US release: 10/15/37 (in production from 6/5/37 to 8/10/37). VHS
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MGM. 103 minutes.
US release: 10/15/37 (in production from 6/5/37 to 8/10/37). VHS
release: 6/24/92.
Cast: Joan Crawford (as "Anni"), Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Billie Burke, Reginald Owen, Lynne Carver, George Zucco, Mary Phillips, Paul Porcasi, Dickie Moore, Frank Puglia.
Credits: Based on the unproduced play "The Girl from Trieste" by Ferenc Molnar. Screenplay: Tess Slesinger and Bradbury Foote. Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Director: Dorothy Arzner. Camera: George Folsey. Art Director: Cedric Gibbons. Music: Franz Waxman. Costumes: Adrian. Editor: Adrienne Fazan.
Howard Barnes in the New York Herald Tribune:
Joan Crawford has a glamorous field day in The Bride Wore Red.... With a new hair-do and more wide-eyed than ever, she plays at being a slattern, a fine lady, and a peasant with all of the well-known Crawford sorcery. It is not entirely her fault that she always remains herself. [The film] has no dramatic conviction and little of the comic flavor that might have made it amusing though slight. Your enjoyment of it will depend on how much of Miss Crawford you can take at one stretch.... The direction of Dorothy Arzner is always interesting and sometimes...is extraordinarily imaginative, but here she has not been able to give a vapid Cinderella pipe dream more than a handsome pictorial front.
Frank S. Nugent in the New York Times:
Gowns by Adrian and settings by Cedric Gibbons do not entirely conceal the underlying shabbiness of The Bride Wore Red, one of those seasonal discoveries of Cinderella which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer turned into the Capitol yesterday. Now it has Miss Joan Crawford who puts on an emotional circus as the shoddy cabaret girl (with dreams) who has been given two glorious weeks with high society in the Tyrol and tries desperately to have the clock stopped before her witching hour strikes.... If anything at all, it is a woman's picture--smouldering with its heroine's indecision and consumed with talk of love and fashions. Tall talk, mostly.
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