Main Cast: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Helen Parrish, Allen Jenkins
Release Year: 1942
Country: US
Run Time: 85 minutes
Plot
Joan Crawford is the kissable bride of the title--but when the film opens, matrimony is the farthest thing from her mind. Crawford becomes a big-time executive upon inheriting her father's trucking business, which leaves her no time for such trivialities as romance. To enhance her business, Crawford arranges a marriage of convenience for her younger sister (Helen Parrish). At the wedding, Crawford meets reporter Melvyn Douglas, who is out to discredit Crawford....and you know what's coming next. They All Kissed the Bride was one of several 1942 productions originally slated for Carole Lombard, whose sudden death in a plane crash required all the major studios to reshuffle their production schedules to come up with last-minute Lombard replacements. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Review
Joan Crawford chooses a no-nonsense approach to They All Kissed the Bride, firing subordinates without a second thought and, what is even worse, forcing her kid sister into an unwanted marriage. She does it all with typical broad-shouldered hauteur and only the presence of Melvyn Douglas seems to soften the lady somewhat. One can of course only speculate how Carole Lombard would have tackled the role but the Carole of old would most certainly have played the formidable Margaret Drew, Esq. with a little more finesse and light of touch. According to some reports, Crawford donated her full salary from They All Kissed the Bride to charities once favored by the late Miss Lombard. Today's viewer may not be quite as charitable. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
Lionel Banks - Art Director, Cary O'Dell - Art Director, Irene - Costume Designer, Alexander Hall - Director, Viola Lawrence - Editor, Werner Richard Heymann - Composer (Music Score), Morris W. Stoloff - Composer (Music Score), Morris W. Stoloff - Musical Direction/Supervision, Joseph Walker - Cinematographer, Edward Kaufman - Producer, George Cooper - Sound/Sound Designer, P.J. Wolfson - Screenwriter, Henry Altimus - Screenwriter, Andrew Solt - Screenwriter, Gina Kaus - Short Story Author
Margaret Drew (Crawford) runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes (Douglas) who is writing a book on some of her tough ways. With no time for men, the effect an attractive stranger has on her at her sister's wedding is unnerving. When it turns out this is the hated writer, she starts seriously to lose her bearings.
