Marry Me! (1949 film)

Marry Me!
Original British cinema poster
Directed by	Terence Fisher
Produced by	Betty Box
Written by	Lewis Gilbert Denis Waldock
Starring	Derek Bond Susan Shaw
Music by	Clifton Parker
Cinematography	Ray Elton
Edited by	Gordon Pilkington
Production company	Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by	General Film Distributors (UK)
Release dates	1949
Running time	97 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Marry Me! (alternative title: I Want to Get Married^[1]) is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Terence Fisher, and starring Derek Bond, Susan Shaw and David Tomlinson.^[2]

The movie was known as I Want to Get Married.^[3]

Plot

David Haig (David Tomlinson) is a newspaper journalist who is instructed by his editor to go undercover at a popular matchmaking service in order to get the scoop on whether they are true cupids or not. The film covers several aspiring relationships of various couples. A French woman running from her abusive boyfriend and seeking citizenship, a butler, his master and a schoolteacher, an attraction girl in a restaurant who falls for a priest and various others; as well as the central plot revolving around Haig's disastrous encounters with various poor matchups and his lovematch one young waitress.

The film has elements of dark drama and self-pity leading to lost love, but it is primarily a romantic comedy.

Most of the gentle romances are successful, although sometimes it takes a little 'slapstick' confusion to achieve.

In the end the only relationship that fails is the priest and the allure girl as she believes herself unworthy of his love and rejects him.

Cast

Derek Bond as Andrew Scott
Susan Shaw as Pat Cooper
Patrick Holt as Martin Roberts
Carol Marsh as Doris Pearson
David Tomlinson as David Haig
Zena Marshall as Marcelle Duclos
Guy Middleton as Sir Gordon Blake
Nora Swinburne as Enid Lawson
Brenda Bruce as Brenda Delamere
Jean Cadell as Hester Parsons
Denis O'Dea as Saunders
Alison Leggatt as Miss Beamish
Beatrice Varley as Mrs. Perrins

References

↑ BFI Film database: Marry Me! Retrieved 2012-04-14
↑ All Movie entry
↑ "Irish Actor "Choosy".". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) (Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia). 15 February 1949. p. 3 Supplement: The Argus Woman's Magazine. Retrieved 17 December 2015.

External links

Marry Me! at the Internet Movie Database
Marry Me! at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database

Films produced by Gainsborough Pictures

The "Gainsborough melodramas"	The Man in Grey (1943) Madonna of the Seven Moons (1944) Fanny by Gaslight (1944) The Wicked Lady (1945) Caravan (1946) Jassy (1947)

Other	The Passionate Adventure (1924) The Rat (1925) The Sea Urchin (1926) The Triumph of the Rat (1926) Blighty (1927) The Constant Nymph (1928) The First Born (1928) The Return of the Rat (1929) Taxi for Two (1929) Night in Montmartre (1931) Hindle Wakes (1931) Jack's the Boy (1932) It's a Boy (1933) Friday the Thirteenth (1933) Wild Boy (1934) My Old Dutch (1934) The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) Oh, Mr Porter! (1937) Doctor Syn (1937) Strange Boarders (1938) The Ghost Train (1941) I Thank You (1941) Back-Room Boy (1942) Uncensored (1942) Bees in Paradise (1944) Time Flies (1944) Give Us the Moon (1944) Two Thousand Women (1944) Love Story (1944) Waterloo Road (1945) A Place of One's Own (1945) They Were Sisters (1945) The Magic Bow (1946) The Root of All Evil (1947) Dear Murderer (1947) Easy Money (1948) Miranda (1948) My Brother's Keeper (1948) Here Come the Huggetts (1948) Vote for Huggett (1949) It's Not Cricket (1949) The Huggetts Abroad (1949) Marry Me! (1949) Christopher Columbus (1949)

Films directed by Terence Fisher

A Song for Tomorrow (1948)
Colonel Bogey (1948)
Portrait from Life (1948)
Marry Me! (1949)
The Astonished Heart (1950)
So Long at the Fair (1950)
Home to Danger (1951)
The Last Page (1952)
Wings of Danger (1952)
Stolen Face (1952)
Distant Trumpet (1952)
Mantrap (1953)
Four Sided Triangle (1953)
Spaceways (1953)
Blood Orange (1953)
Face the Music (1954)
Murder by Proxy (1954)
A Stranger Came Home (1954)
Final Appointment (1954)
Mask of Dust (1954)
Children Galore (1955)
Stolen Assignment (1955)
The Flaw (1955)
The Gelignite Gang (1956)
The Last Man to Hang? (1956)
Kill Me Tomorrow (1957)
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Dracula (1958)
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
The Mummy (1959)
The Stranglers of Bombay (1960)
The Brides of Dracula (1960)
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)
The Horror of It All (1963)
The Gorgon (1964)
The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Island of Terror (1966)
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Night of the Big Heat (1967)
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)

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