Our Blushing Brides
About Our Blushing Brides
Gerry March, Connie Blair, and Franky Daniels are roommates and shopgirls at a New York department store, looking for rich husbands. Connie takes up with David Jardine, the owner's younger son, and means to marry him. She hears on the radio that he is marrying Evelyn Woodforth, takes poison, and dies even after Tony Jardine drags David to the bedside. Franky falls for Marty Sanderson, who fences goods stolen from stores and also makes a pass at Gerry. Police arrest Franky as one of the gang. She knows nothing about it. Gerry, a model, keeps refusing Tony, the older son, until he asks her to marry him.
Cast & crew
More about Our Blushing Brides
Harry Beaumont directed and produced. Bess Meredyth, John Howard Lawson, and Edwin Justus Mayer wrote it. Merritt B. Gerstad photographed it. Cedric Gibbons was art director and Adrian designed the clothes. George Hively edited. MGM released the film on 19 July 1930. It is a sound picture. Crawford, Anita Page, and Dorothy Sebastian had already starred together in Our Dancing Daughters and Our Modern Maidens, as different characters.
Themes
Making
Beaumont shot the three women as store workers sharing rooms, then split them: Connie toward the married younger son, Franky toward a thief, Gerry toward the son who offers marriage instead of an affair.
Look
Merritt B. Gerstad photographed the store, the shared flat, and Tony Jardine's estate, where Gerry refuses the first invitation.
Preservation
Prints survive, including a circulating copy.
Notes
- Joan Crawford plays Geraldine March. Anita Page is Connie Blair. Dorothy Sebastian is Francine Daniels. Robert Montgomery is Tony Jardine. Raymond Hackett is David. John Miljan is Marty Sanderson.
- Hedda Hopper plays Lansing Ross-Weaver. Martha Sleeper is Evelyn Woodforth. Louise Beavers plays a mannequin's maid.
- Connie dies. The radio wedding is still going when Gerry finds her.
- Marty is the head of a crew that steals from department stores, and he courts Franky with diamonds and silk.
- The negative cost was $337,000. Worldwide rentals were $1,211,000.
- It was Crawford's fourth sound film.
Scenes
- Connie hears David's wedding on the radio and takes poison.
- Tony forces David to the bedside. Connie dies anyway.
- Police pick up Franky for Marty's store thefts, which she did not know about.
- Gerry, who has refused Tony, is asked to marry him.
