Here Comes the Groom

Bing Crosby: Peter ' Pete ' Garvey
Jane Wyman: Emmadel ' Emmy ' Jones
Alexis Smith: Winifred Stanley
James Barton: William ' Pa' Jones
Robert Keith George Degnan
Jacques Gencel: Bobby (as Jacky Gencel )
Beverly Washburn: Suzi
Connie Gilcrest: Ma Jones
Walter Catlett: Mr. McGonigle
Ellen Corby: Mrs. McGonigle
Alan Reed: Mr. Walter Godfrey
Minna Gombell: Mrs. Godfrey
H. B. Warner: Uncle Elihu
Nicholas Joy: Uncle Prentiss
James Burke: O'Neill, Police Officer
Irving Bacon: Baines, Butler
Howard Freeman: Governor
Ted Thorpe: Paul Pipitt
Maidel Turner: Aunt Abby
Art Baker: Radio Announcer
Anna Maria Alberghetti: Theresa
Louis Armstrong: Himself
Dorothy Lamour: Herself

Wedding Parade ( OT: Here Comes the Groom ) is an American comedy film from 1951, directed by Frank Capra. The main roles are occupied with Jane Wyman and Bing Crosby. The plot is based on a story by Robert Riskin and Liam O'Brien, who was also involved in the screenplay for the film. At the Academy Awards 1952, the film won the Oscar in the ' Best Song ' category. The film was produced by Paramount Pictures.

Action

Pete Garvey, who has worked as a reporter for The Boston Morning Express for three years in Paris, in order to report on war orphans, receives a call from his editor George Degnan, who offers him a new post in the Far East. Pete wants to face the new challenges. But then he receives from his childhood sweetheart Emmadel ' Emmy ' Jones, with whom he had long been engaged, the news that she did not want to wait any longer for him, as they finally get married and want to have children. Pete sees his chance to change her mind that he returns to America and Robert Dulac, called Bobby, to whom he had looked like a father during his stay in Paris, brought along. First, however, once he has cleared the formalities what his departure for America further delayed. In addition, Bobby does not want to Suzi without a little girl who has joined him during the war going. So, Pete decides to give both children a new home. On his return, however, he discovers that Emmy the waiting time was too long. She now plans to contact a few days with her millionaire boss Wilbur Stanley, a real estate tycoon, to the altar. Pete's situation is further complicated by the fact that the support it has been made by the authorities to show, within a very short time, that he is married, because the children it would otherwise be taken away again.

Pete now moves heaven and earth to win back Emmy and not just in the interest of the children. To his surprise, Wilbur Stanley, whom he had introduced himself as an old man makes out as his equal. It succeeds Pete, to stay on Wilbur's estate. He offers him a deal: Both men are fair attempt to secure Emmys love, without getting in the way. Wilbur, the Emmys love is pretty sure embarks on Pete's game. At his new residence Pete meets Wilbur's distant relatives Winifred, the Wilbur, without knowing it, loves a long time. Pete tried to use this fact for his own purposes. He makes the colorless Winifred a feisty young woman. At the dress rehearsal for the wedding there will be a " wrestling match " between Winifred and Emmy after Winifred has publicly proclaimed their love for Wilbur. Wilbur knew Emmy so far only as an accomplished lady who shows up to Pete's chagrin, however, impressed by the little ladylike Emmy.

The wedding will be broadcast live from the press and television, the multi-millionaire Stanley Wilbur but marries the fisherman's daughter Emmy. The ceremony is interrupted when Pete with an FBI agent and the crying children appears in tow. The agent claimed that Pete tried to kidnap the children, so they are not sent to France. Wilbur promises to adopt the children after marriage, but want Bobby and Suzi not be separated from Pete. Emmy asks Wilbur to do something. In front of television cameras, it offers Pete to his place at the altar. Thus, a couple at the end of Emmy and Pete.

After the ceremony, Pete admits that it is the " feds " have been a reporter and Wilbur congratulates him on this move. He has since fallen in love with Winifred. When Pete drives off with his little family, confesses to him Emmy that she knew immediately that the so-called " Fed " was not real.

Background

Filming took place from November 1950 to January 29, 1951 in Boston and Gloucester in Massachusetts in the USA. Filming was also at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California. The working title of the film was You Belong to Me ( You belong to me ). The film had its world premiere in the U.S. in Elko in the U.S. state of Nevada on July 30, 1951 in Los Angeles, he ran on 6 September 1951, in New York on 20 September 1951. In the Federal Republic of Germany, he started on 6. May of 1952 and in Austria also in 1952. Besides, he was in 1952 still in the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Portugal as a premiere to the movies. In France, he started on 16 October 1953. Expenditure for the film amounted to $ 2,117,000 (estimated). In the U.S., the film was playing a $ 2,550,000.

Music in Film:

In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening, composed by Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael
Misto Christofo Columbo by Jay Livingstone and Ray Evans
Our Own Little House and Bonne Nuit also by Jay Livingstone and Ray Evans, sung by Bing Crosby.
The aria Caro Nome from Rigoletto, sung by Anna Maria Alberghetti.

Criticism

" A poor journalist adopted in Paris in 1945 two war orphans, by fulfilling the condition to marry within eight days. After his return to the United States he successfully competes with a multimillion dollar rivals for the heart and hand of his bride. An omitted - funny comedy with many musicals and swing deposits (including with Louis Armstrong ). Cavalier entertainment, with the Capra certainly not reached the level and the originality of his much-vaunted screwball comedies of the 30s and early 40s. "

Awards

The film was able to win an Oscar at the Academy Awards 1952 in the category ' Best Song ' ( In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening by Hoagy Carmichael (music) and Johnny Mercer ( text ) ).
In addition, he was nominated in the category ' best original story ' based on the story You belong to me ( You belong to me ) by Robert Riskin and Liam O'Brien, but had a disadvantage compared to a city holds its breath ( Seven Days to Noon ) by Paul Dehn and James Bernard.

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