There Goes the Bride ** (1932, Jessie Matthews, Owen Nares, Carol Goodner, Basil Radford, Roland Culver) – Classic Movie Review 8105

Jessie Matthews’s first major film roles were in Out of the Blue (1931) and then two films directed by Albert de Courville, The Midshipmaid (1932) and There Goes the Bride (1932), a British screwball black and white romantic musical comedy hit, also starring Owen Nares, Carol Goodner, Basil Radford and Roland Culver.

Jessie Matthews stars in There Goes the Bride (1932) as businessman’s daughter Annette Marquand (Jessie Matthews), who breaks off her engagement in an arranged marriage and escapes by train to Paris.

Her bag is stolen, but she suspected of the theft by wealthy young Max (Owen Nares), who is sharing her carriage. Max will not let her out of his sight until she explains herself properly, but Max and Annette are falling in love, upsetting Max’s fiancee Cora (Carol Goodner).

There Goes the Bride is written by W P Lipscomb and is a remake of a German film, I’ll Stay with You (1931), so it is based on the story by Henry Koster (aka Hermann Kosterlitz) and Wolfgang Wilhelm. Matthews performs I’m Looking for You (composed by Fred Raymond, lyrics by Clifford Grey). David Niven makes his film debut in a tiny uncredited role.

Also in the cast are Charles Carson as Monsieur Marquand, Barbara Everest as Madame Marquand, Basil Radford as Rudolph, Winifred Oughton as Housekeeper, Jerry Verno as Clark the chauffeur, Roland Culver as Jacques, Jack Morrison as Alphonse, Mignon O’Doherty as Madame Duchaine, Max Kirby as Pierre, Gordon McLeod as Monsieur Duchaine, Laurence Hanray as Police Chief, George Zucco as Prosecutor, Carroll Gibbons as Himself and Savoy Orpheans as Themselves.

It is made by Gainsborough Pictures and British Lion Film Corporation, released by Ideal (UK) and Gaumont-British Picture Corporation (US), and shot at Beaconsfield Studios in London on sets designed by art director Norman Arnold.

It was released in 2009 on Region 2 DVD by Network and by VCI Entertainment in 2013 in the US.

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