The gay bride 1934
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 film 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 Same-sex attracted 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 idealistic 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
Synopsis
The Preacher asked "WILL YOU TAKE THIS MAN?" She Answered "I WILL-AND HOW!"
Mary wants to unite a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the existence expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
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A reminder that I need to perform 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 faith fund). And in fact, she wouldn't mind if her racketeer beau croaked right after the nuptials. In evidence, it would be preferred.
Her marriage to Shoots Magiz (Nat Pendleton, an absolute dull-witted riot) is progressing good 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 car 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 unite gangsters because
was a transitional year in the film industry. The Hays Code, which had been in outcome 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 preceding s films pushed boundaries. In an effort to conform to this fresh 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 acquire their pre-code stories to fit into this modern 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 bar her wealthy racketeer lover 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 essence of
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 famished, so she decides to marry mobster Shoots (Nat Pendleton) for his cash. (As it turns out, he doesn't have 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 direct, although Mary would still like to eat steadily, she wants to untangle herself from the mobsters and marry Office Teen, who plans to expose a garage.
That plot description really doesn't do it full justice, with a rather bizarre premise as