Our Blushing Brides

Our Blushing Brides
Original film poster
Directed by	Harry Beaumont
Produced by	Harry Beaumont
Written by	Story: Bess Meredyth Screenplay: Bess Meredyth John Howard Lawson Additional dialogue: Edwin Justus Mayer
Starring	Joan Crawford Anita Page Dorothy Sebastian Robert Montgomery
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	July 19, 1930 (1930-07-19)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Our Blushing Brides is a 1930 drama film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, and Dorothy Sebastian. The film was a follow-up to Our Dancing Daughters (1928) and Our Modern Maidens (1929), and was a commercial success when it was released.

The two previous installments in the series were both silent films, while Our Blushing Brides had the novelty of being an early sound film or "talkie" at a time when the phenomenon was relatively new. The fact that it featured talking was actually an advertising point mentioned on the movie poster.

Our Blushing Brides was Crawford's thirty-first film (of eight-six total), but only her fourth sound film. Crawford plays Gerry, a shopgirl in love with the heir to a department store where she works. With this film, MGM began to develop a more sophisticated image of Joan Crawford, rather than continuing to promote her flapper girl persona of the silent era.^[1]

Plot

Fellow department store shopgirls and roommates Gerry (Crawford), Connie (Page) and Franky (Sebastian) take different paths in the big city, but all seek to marry themselves to wealthy men. Connie has an affair with David (Raymond Hackett), son of the department store owner, and when he dumps her she kills herself. Franky marries Marty (John Miljan) without knowing he's a crook, but Gerry helps her out of this and Franky goes back to her mother's farm. Gerry has resisted Tony (Robert Montgomery), elder son of the store owner, and sadly believes that virtue will be her only reward, but things finally get better with Tony.

Throughout the story, Gerry is the sensible one, while the others throw themselves at amoral rich men in an attempt to hook one and better themselves. They end up being hurt and disappointed despite Gerry's attempts to warn them.

Cast

• Joan Crawford as Geraldine "Gerry" March
• Anita Page as Connie Blair
• Dorothy Sebastian as Francine Daniels
• Robert Montgomery as Tony Jardine
• Raymond Hackett as David Jardine
• John Miljan as Martin W. "Marty" Sanderson
• Hedda Hopper as Lansing Ross-Weaver
• Albert Conti as Monsieur Pantoise
• Edward Brophy as Joseph Munsey
• Robert Emmett O'Connor as The Detective
• Martha Sleeper as Evelyn Woodforth
• Gwen Lee as Miss Dardinelle
• Mary Doran as Eloise
• Catherine Moylan as Mannequin
• Norma Drew as Mannequin
• Claire Dodd as Mannequin
• Wilda Mansfield as Mannequin

References

1. ^ Hay, Peter (1991), MGM: When the Lion Roars, Atlanta: Turner Publishing, Inc., p. 72, ISBN 1-878685-04-X 

External links

• Our Blushing Brides at the Internet Movie Database