Our Blushing Brides

Our Blushing Brides is an American feature film starring Joan Crawford. He finished a series of three films that began with Our Dancing Daughters 1928, 1929 was continued with Our Modern Maidens and always marked the fate of three girlfriends.

Action

The three friends Gerry, who works as a mannequin, Connie, a perfume saleswoman and Franky, who is employed in the fabric department are all in a large department store in services. They share an apartment and try to catch up rich men. Franky, an easy-going girl with loose morals, is rapidly the mistress of Martin, a Playboy. Connie caught the attention of David Jardine, the for-nothing younger heirs of the department store. Gerry is more prudent than their girlfriends. Only very reluctantly accepted the affection of Tony Jardine, the serious and reasonable brother of David. However, when he tried to make Gerry to his lover, they made ​​it clear that it does not stand for such pleasures available. Just as Gerry wants her friends complain their suffering, the police comes and takes Franky finds suspected to have Marti helped his ripoffs. Connie also has bad luck: David wants to marry a rich heiress and then leaves his mistress. Out of desperation, Connie the wedding celebrations brings to the evening. The strength of character, with the Gerry solves all problems relating to convince Tony to marry her.

Background

Our Blushing Brides with MGM ended a trilogy of three films that carried all the personal pronoun in the title and started with Our Dancing Daughters Our 1928. For Joan Crawford, who had begun her career in 1925 as an extra and had come in recent years as a performer exuberant flapper to fame, the film marked a turning point in her career. After she made ​​the leap to talkies without problems in the previous year, but it was time to adapt their role specialist to the new circumstances. With the deepening global economic crisis, the jazz era with Charleston and short dresses was gradually passé.

Crawford, who always paid close attention to their image, the studio led them to give her the first time in this film a dramatic role. Our Blushing Brides made ​​from the three heroines who were heiresses in the previous films, consistent hard working girls who have to earn their own living. Here is the script, the fundamental question of whether in a time of economic uncertainty values ​​such as virtue and morality in general have their own importance. Or whether circumstances require it, economic security through morally questionable decisions, such as liaison with a rich man to achieve. This topic has been interpreted even dozens of times in the films of the year and a whole genre, the tales confession or confession films, established as a result.

To the predominantly female fans Joan Crawford to present as a poor shop-girl in elaborate costumes and expensive silk underwear without much breaks in logic, the script from Jerry made ​​a mannequin, who spends much of the action on the catwalk in changing wardrobe.

The film was the second of six films together by Crawford with Robert Montgomery. Today the film is especially known for the sets by Cedric Gibbons, who designed some spectacular Art Deco scenes.

Joan Crawford the inferior quality of the material was well aware when it concluded against Roy Newquist:

" [E ] in another letdown. The poor Bob Montgomery had no chance against the script, luckily my role was okay. "

Theatrical Release

The film came in the national rental on 19 July 1930. Production costs of 337,000 U.S. dollars up to the standard for a Joan Crawford film from the period. He plays in the U.S. with a sum of 874,000 U.S. dollars, a considerable sum one. With the foreign income of 337,000 dollars and a cumulative total profit of 1.211 million U.S. dollars, the studio was able to realize a profit of 412,000 U.S. dollars at the end. Crawford was thus one of the economically most valuable Stars of society.

Reviews

Lucius Beebe was in the New York Times:

"Everything is geschätzig and would just be depressing midst of all the false elegance, were it not for the humorous and intelligent play of Joan Crawford, the terms of its role of a mannequin with enough self-confidence for a Marquise and virtue enough for a whole regiment. If the spectacle of a saleswoman who behaves with the occurrence of Park Avenue also is not very convincing, yet it is at least amusing, even if there is doubt that the director intended just that. "

Photoplay was aware of what the female fans expected from a Crawford film.

"You have to see Joan Crawford in this silk underwear! The film has real potential at the box office! "

Sources and literature used

  • Roy Newquist (ed.): Conversations with Joan Crawford. Citadel Press, Secaucus, N. J. 1980, ISBN 0-8065-0720-9
  • Lawrence J. Quirk: The Complete Films of Joan Crawford. Citadel Press, Secaucus, N. J. 1988, ISBN 0-8065-1078-1
  • Alexander Walker: Joan Crawford. The Ultimate Star. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1983, ISBN 0-297-78216-9
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