The Bride Comes Home

1935 film by Wesley Ruggles

Claudette Colbert
Fred MacMurray
Robert Young

CinematographyLeo ToverEdited byPaul WeatherwaxMusic byHeinz Roemheld

Production
company

Paramount Pictures

Distributed byParamount Pictures

Release date

December 25, 1935 (1935-12-25) (USA)

Running time

83 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

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, the penniless 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 would seem to marry her, Anderson prepares a plan to take 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".^[1]

References

^ Greene, Graham (10 January 1936). "Reifende Jugend/The Bride Comes Home". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. pp. 45–46. ISBN 0192812866.)