THE BRIDE CAME C.O.D.
/Warner Bros.)
as some of the advertise- _ ments rather fatuously elaborated it, The Bride Came Cash on Delivery, is a film which I imagine made Miss
Lejeune jump with joy, for it completely and delightfully ignores the march of international events between September, 1939, and the present day. And there is no reason why it should not also delight New Zealanders, I felt (and I think you will, too) that in making this film Bette Davis was determined to pack The Little Foxes in their cardboard boxes and have a day off from drama. But though there is an under-current of irresponsibility throughout the picture, and though satire is one of the main ingredients, the show stands on its own feet and demonstrates (if any demonstration were needed) that whatever may be said about the general run of Hollywood stars, Bette Davis and James Cagney can act. : As a glamour-girl accustomed to having her slightest actions chronicled by press and radio, Miss Davis has a fieldday tilting at those emptv- headed
lovelies on the social register (and the screen) who live by and for publicity. When the story opens, she is preparing (with the aid of press and radio) to elope with a band leader in Mr. Cagney’s hirepurchase ’plane, but Mr. Cagney (whose ’plane is due to be seized by the finance company) arranges with her father to kidnap the wench and return her to him unmarried for 1,150 dollars -115lb. of freight at ten dollars a pound-being the amount still due on his machine. The glamour girl’s disgust at being snatched for so paltry a sum (Cagney explains that he is a beginner at the game) sets the key for the whole comedy, which should keep you quietly chuckling. And Cagney is good. I will admit to a prejudice in favour of him. I like his du Maurier technique — his "I love you, damn you" methods. There is a strong supporting cast. In fact, if Hollywood could always turn out a show as good in its way as this one, it would be sure of my cash on delivery, every time,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 172, 9 October 1942, Page 13
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357THE BRIDE CAME C.O.D. New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 172, 9 October 1942, Page 13
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