They All Kissed the Bride

They All Kissed the Bride 1942 is a Columbia Pictures screwball film starring Joan Crawford and Melvyn Douglas. The film was directed by Alexander Hall and produced by Edward Kaufman. The screenplay by P. J. Wolfson was based on a story by Gina Kaus and Andrew P. Solt.

Margaret Drew Crawford runs her trucking company singlemindedly, 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 sisters wedding is unnerving. When it turns out this is the hated writer, she starts seriously to lose her bearings.They All Kissed the Bride was originally slated to star Carole Lombard in a followup film to the successful To Be or Not to Be. However, she died in a 1942 plane crash after departing Las Vegas on her way back from a bondselling tour in. Louis B. Mayer at MGM agreed to let Crawford place on loan to Columbia, where producer Edward Kaufman has to rework the script to fit Crawfords style of comedy. In fact, Mayer rarely lent out stars of Crawfords stature, not wanting other studios to profit from MGMs starmaking machine. Crawford insisted that Melvyn Douglas with whom she had appeared in the 1938 flop The Shining Hour star opposite her. ........

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