The Bride Walks Out (1936) Directed by Leigh Jason
Comedy / Romance
Film Review
Barbara Stanwyck is on cracking form in this breezy Depression Era
comedy, her lively presence making up for the humdrum narrative and
dearth of quality gags. Gene Raymond has such an antipathetic
persona that it stretches credulity too far for us believe for one
moment that Ms Stanwyck would prefer him to the dreamy-eyed and
lethally debonair Robert Young, later to be immortalised as Marcus
Welby MD. Fortunately, Ned Sparks, Helen Broderick and Hattie
McDaniel are on hand to share the comedy load and brighten up what
might otherwise have been a limp and predictable comedy. The
familiar themes of the Great Depression are made light of, although the
most striking thing about The Bride
Walks Out is its pro-feminist slant, with Stanwyck boldly
defying the mantra that a woman's place is in the home. Agreeable
as the film is, Stanwyck and director Leigh Jason would achieve much
better things on their subsequent collaboration, The Mad Miss Manton (1938).
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Film Synopsis
Ignoring his girlfriend Carolyn's protestations that they cannot possibly
live on his paltry salary of thirty-five dollars a week, Michael Martin marries
her in haste and soon lives to regret it. Thanks to Carolyn's shopaholic
tendencies the couple soon find themselves up to their necks in debt and
it isn't long before the bailiffs come along and take away all of their furniture.
Hugh McKenzie, the alcoholic son of a department store magnate who is infatuated
with Carolyn, comes to the couple's rescue. Without Michael knowing,
Hugh replaces all of the repossessed furniture. Carolyn's decision
to get herself a modelling job so that she can pay back Hugh is ill-received
by her husband and the couple are soon heading for a bitter divorce.
Michael hopes to win back Carolyn by earning a large pay cheque on a risky
engineering project in South America...
Script: P.J. Wolfson (play),
Philip G. Epstein (play), Howard Emmett Rogers (story)
Cinematographer: J. Roy Hunt
Cast:Barbara Stanwyck (Carolyn Martin),
Gene Raymond (Michael Martin),
Robert Young (Hugh McKenzie),
Ned Sparks (Paul Dodson),
Helen Broderick (Mattie Dodson),
Willie Best (Smokie),
Robert Warwick (Mr. McKenzie),
Billy Gilbert (Mr Donovan),
Wade Boteler (Field chief),
Hattie McDaniel (Mamie, Carolyn's maid),
Jack Adair (McKenzie Building Doorman),
Herbert Ashley (Coachman),
Irving Bacon (Hugh's Chauffeur),
Ward Bond (Taxi Driver),
Spencer Charters (Marriage Bureau Justice of the Peace),
Rose Coghlan (Shocked Woman in Elevator),
Anita Colby (Saleslady),
Edgar Dearing (Cop),
Robert Dudley (Irate Neighbor),
Eddie Dunn (Milkman)
Country: USA
Language: English
Support: Black and White
Runtime: 75 min
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