The Bride Wore Red (DVD)

Bankrolled by a count with a taste for practical jokes, streetwise bargirl Anni (Joan Crawford) passes herself off as an aristocrat at a posh Alpine resort. There she plans to land a wealthy husband (Robert Young) pronto, even though she's drawn to the town postman (Franchot Tone, Crawford's then-husband, in the last of the seven films they made together). from it's love vs. security theme to it's knockout clothes (the eponymous dress boasts two-million bugle beads), the Bride Wore Red is a quintessential woman's picture; and it features a fabulous woman on each side of the camera: gorgeous Crawford, at her romantic, rags-to-riches peak and Dorothy Arzner (Dance, Girl, Dance), Hollywood's only Golden Age female director.

Starring: Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Billie Burke, Reginald Owen, Mary Phillips, Frank Puglia, Ann Rutherford, Charles Judels, Nino Bellini, Rita Gould, Lynne Carver, George Zucco, Paul Porcasi, Dickie Moore, Irene Coleman, John Oliver, Franco Corsaro, Rafael Storm, Bob Cautiero, Alphonse Martell, Fred Malatesta, Anna Demetrio, George Jiminez, Adriana Caselotti, Jean Lewis, Gino Corrado, Francesco Maran, Harry Wilson, Agostino Borgato, Theodore Hall, Geneva Hall, Abe Dinovitch

Director: George Folsey, Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Rating: NR