The Gay Bride

The Gay Bride is a 1934 blackandwhite gangster screwball comedy starring Carole Lombard as a wisecracking golddigger and Chester Morris as the poor man she despises. It was directed by Jack Conway and written by the husbandandwife team of Sam and Bella Spewak, based on the story Repeal by Charles Francis Coe.

Golddigging chorus girl Mary Carole Lombard marries the head of a bootlegging syndicate, gangster Shoots Magiz Nat Pendleton, but the illegal liquor business goes down the drain when Prohibition is repealed, and Shoots is knocked off by rival Daniel Dingle Sam Hardy. Mary, looking for a new sugardaddy, hooks up with Dingle, and when Dingle is removed from the scene by Mickey The Greek Mikapopoulis Leo Carrillo, transfers her attention to him in return for a trust fund. All the time, fasttalking straightshooter Jimmy Office Boy Burnham Chester Morris, Shoots former bodyguard and errand boy, has looked after Mary, passing her advice and snappy remarks whenever theyre needed. In the end, Mary and Office Boy end up together, but only after Merry Widow Mary gives away all the dirty money she was given.The Gay Bride began shooting onSeptember 1934 and finished onOctober. It used the working title of Repeal, which was the title of the short story by Charles Francis Coe it was based on, which had been published in the Saturday Evening Post at the end of 1933. The title refers to the repeal of Prohibition, which ruined the business of the bootlegger played by Nat Pendelton. ........

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