The gay bride 1934
Synopsis
The Preacher asked "WILL YOU Verb THIS MAN?" She Answered "I WILL-AND HOW!"
Mary wants to wedding a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
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More“How would you feel if you were dead and I kissed somebody else.”
A reminder that I need to work the phrase “that’s just jake” into my vocabulary more often. Head bride showgirl Carole Lombard is an unrepentant digger, and she just wants to eat (the main course, a trust fund). And in fact, she wouldn't mind if her racketeer beau croaked right after the nuptials. In fact, it would be preferred.
Her marriage to Shoots Magiz (Nat Pendleton, an absolute dull-witted riot) is progressing successfully enough—she got his will written in her favor and is living it up on his dwindling dime—until he gets blown to bits in a ride explosion. “Office Boy” Chester Morris is tasked with protecting…
This is a surprisingly cute story about a gold-digging woman (Carole Lombard) who gives up trying to marry gangsters because
Given my liking for the two leads, it's hard for me to believe I hadn't yet seen a movie in which they costarred! The film turned out to be a rather goofy mishmash which veered from comedy to melodrama, but on the whole I enjoyed it.
Lombard plays Mary, a chorus girl who's tired of being hungry, so she decides to marry mobster Shoots (Nat Pendleton) for his money. (As it turns out, he doesn't own any, but that's another story.) Shoots assigns his bodyguard, "Office Boy" (Morris), to protect Mary.
Before long Shoots is rubbed out by one of his lieutenants, Dingle (Sam Hardy), who also lays claim to Maryand eventually another mobster, Mickey (Leo Carrillo), wants to marry her as well. By this point, although Mary would still like to eat steadily, she wants to untangle herself from the mobsters and marry Office Boy, who plans to open a garage.
That plot description really doesn't perform it full justice, with a rather bizarre premise as
was a transitional year in the film industry. The Hays Code, which had been in effect for years but not strictly enforced, was now the law of the land. Hollywood got away with a lot in those few years between the advent of talking pictures and the enforcement of the Code. Pre-Code films went on to become a genre much beloved by future generations of film buffs because of how these early s films pushed boundaries. In an effort to conform to this new censorship, post-code films went through a scrubbing of content, washing away much of what titillated audiences . In especially, filmmakers were trying to figure out how to get their pre-code stories to fit into this fresh post-code mold. The Gay Bride () is an example of how fitting a round peg into a square hole just didn't quite perform out.
The Gay Bridestars Carole Lombardas Mary, a chorus girl looking to lock her wealthy racketeer boyfriend Shoots Magiz (Nat Pendleton) into holy matrimony. Ignoring the warnings of her trusty sidekick Mirabelle (Zasu Pitts), she manages to snag her cash cow. Due to the nature of
The Gay Bride ()
The implementation of the Code in left many films in a state of disarray, having to tweak scripts and direction at the last second to comply. Cinema was left to neuter itself, and quick. It&#;s hard watching movies from this year. The audience can see where the sauciness would have come in, where the plot could have gone darker. It&#;s like watching a movie where the script included scenes that weren&#;t filmed. While she wasn&#;t in the same league of seductiveness as Mae West &#; and thus never suffered the same censorship &#; Carole Lombard was perfectly suited for the pre-Code era. The Gay Bride, based on a story by Charles Francis Coe, was envisioned as the story of a golddigger working her way to the top. What it became was a slap-dash quixotic comedy that doesn&#;t have the &#;brains&#; of its characters, but is still a fun moment thanks to Lombard and gal Friday, Zasu Pitts.
Mary (Lombard) is hoping to set herself up as a society dame thanks to mobster boyfriend &#;Shoots&#; Magiz (Nat Pendleton). When Shoots ends up DOA, the newly married Mary Ma