Movie Reviewed: Our Blushing Brides (1930)
The pre-code version of “How to Marry a Millionaire”
In this movie (1930), the script of Bess Meredyth and John Howard Lawson describes the amours of three department store girls; Jerry, Connie and Frankie. Connie and Frankie are fun loving girls who throw themselves at rich playboys in an attempt to marry them. Jerry, played by Joan Crawford is the sensible girl and warns them about playboys who are not interested in serious relationship. The girls ignore her and then end up being hurt. This movie is somewhat similar to the highly successful 1953 film “How to Marry a Millionaire.”
There are a lot of fun instances, and one I particularly liked is when Joan Crawford wears a blonde wig and tests the patience of her suitor played by Robert Montgomery. The fun-loving Anita Page dates Raymond Hackett and Dorothy Sebastian dates John Miljan in this flapper epic. Director Harry Beaumont staged a big fashion parade to make sure that the film is appealing to the female audience just like his 1928 movie, “Our Dancing Daughters." I think this is an enjoyable movie and I am sure you will like it too.
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