Our Blushing Brides
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| Our Blushing Brides | |
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| 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 |
| Running time | 102 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Our Blushing Brides is a 1930 film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, and Dorothy Sebastian. The film was a follow-up to Our Dancing Daughters and Our Modern Maidens, and was a commercial success when it was released.
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[edit] An early "Talkie"
The two previous installments in the series were both silent films, while Our Blushing Brides had the novelty of being an early Talkie, or sound film - a film with sound and spoken dialogue - 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, as seen in the image on this page.
[edit] Joan Crawford
Our Blushing Brides was Joan Crawford's 31st film (of 86 total), but only her fourth sound film. Crawford plays Jerry, a shopgirl in love with the heir to a department store where Jerry works.
[edit] Plot
Fellow department store shopgirls and roommates Jerry, Connie and Franky take different paths in the big city, but all seek to marry themselves to wealthy men. Connie has an affair with David, son of the department store owner, and when he dumps her she kills herself. Franky marries Marty without knowing he's a crook, but Jerry helps her out of this and Franky back goes to her mother's farm. Jerry has resisted Tony, 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, Jerry 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 Jerry's attempts to warn them.
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