The Bride Wore Red
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| Directed by | Dorothy Arzner |
| Produced by | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Written by |
Tess Slesinger Bradbury Foote Waldo Salt (uncredited) Catherine Turney (uncredited) |
| Based on |
The Bride from Trieste by Ferenc Molnár |
| Starring |
Joan Crawford Franchot Tone Robert Young Billie Burke |
| Music by | Franz Waxman |
| Cinematography | George J. Folsey |
| Edited by | Adrienne Fazan |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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103 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $960,000 |
| Box office | $1,200,000 |
The Bride Wore Red is a 1937 American film directed by Dorothy Arzner, and starring Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Robert Young and Billie Burke. It was based on the unproduced play The Bride from Trieste by Ferenc Molnár. In this "rags to riches" tale, Crawford plays a cabaret singer who poses as an . This film was the last of seven films that Crawford and co-star Franchot Tone, then her husband, would make together.
In a Trieste gambling casino, the cynical Count Armalia (George Zucco) tells his snobbish friend Rudi Pal (Robert Young) that the only thing separating aristocrats from peasants is luck. Later, in a waterfront cafe, he decides to prove his point by offering the club's singer, Anni Pavlovitch (Joan Crawford), money and a wardrobe to stay at an upper class resort hotel in the Alps for two weeks and pose as his friend Anne Vivaldi, an aristocrat's daughter. When Anni first arrives, she meets Giulio (Franchot Tone), a philosophical postal clerk who has no desire for wealth. She also meets her old friend Maria (Mary Philips), who is happy being a maid in the hotel and warns Anni not to become the victim of Armalia's joke on his friends.
That evening, Anni attracts the attention of Rudi, who is dining with his fiancée, Maddalena Monti (Lynne Carver), her father, Admiral Monti (Reginald Owen), and Contessa di Meina (Billie Burke). Rudi begins to fall in love with Anni, but she is more attracted to Giulio. Hoping to lure Rudi into proposing to her, Anni extends her stay beyond the two weeks while the Contessa, who has been suspicious of her from the beginning, wires Armalia for information on her. When the reply comes through the post office, Giulio reads it and learns the truth, but on the way to deliver it, he meets Anni, who goes to his cottage and realizes that she loves him, but marriage to Rudi would bring the material wealth she craves. Later, she falls and Giulio loses the telegram going to help her.
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