''The Bride Comes Home'' is a 1935 comedy film made by
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS). It is the fifth-oldes ...
, directed by
Wesley Ruggles, and starring
Claudette Colbert,
Fred MacMurray
Frederick Martin MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films and a successful television series, in a career that spanned nearly a half-century. His career as a major film le ...
and
Robert Young Robert, Rob, Robbie, Bob, or Bobby Young may refer to:
Academics
* R. A. Young (Robert Arthur Young, 1871–1959), British physician
* Robert J. C. Young (born 1950), British cultural critic and historian
* Robert J. Young (born 1942), Canadian h ...
. 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
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Claudette Colbert as Jeannette Desmereau
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Fred MacMurray
Frederick Martin MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films and a successful television series, in a career that spanned nearly a half-century. His career as a major film le ...
as Cyrus Anderson
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Robert Young Robert, Rob, Robbie, Bob, or Bobby Young may refer to:
Academics
* R. A. Young (Robert Arthur Young, 1871–1959), British physician
* Robert J. C. Young (born 1950), British cultural critic and historian
* Robert J. Young (born 1942), Canadian h ...
as Jack Bristow
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William Collier, Sr.
William Collier Sr. (November 12, 1864 – January 13, 1944), born William Morenus, was an American writer, director and actor.
Collier ran away from home when only 11 years old to join a touring company run by Eddie Foy and in 1879 he appeared ...
as Alfred Desmereau
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Donald Meek
Thomas Donald Meek (14 July 1878 – 18 November 1946) was a Scottish-American actor. He first performed publicly at the age of eight and began appearing on Broadway in 1903.
Meek is perhaps best known for his roles in the films '' You Can't T ...
as The judge
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Richard Carle as Frank (butler)
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Edgar Kennedy as Henry
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Johnny Arthur as Otto
*Kate MacKenna as Emma
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Jimmy Conlin
Jimmy Conlin (October 14, 1884 – May 7, 1962) was an American character actor who appeared in almost 150 films in his 32-year career.
Career
Conlin was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1884, and his acting career started out in vaudeville, ...
as Len Noble
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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".
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References
External links
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''The Bride Comes Home''at Virtual History
1935 films
American black-and-white films
Paramount Pictures films
Films directed by Wesley Ruggles
1935 romantic comedy films
American romantic comedy films
1930s American films
1930s English-language films
English-language romantic comedy films
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