They All Kissed The Bride

They all did it once except Mervyn Douglas, who did it about ten times—and that is about all the bearing that the title has on the picture. For the rest, the same suave gentleman proceeds to melt Joan Crawford's stony heart. He succeeds after a jitterbug contest and plenty of alcohol. The picture has a typical story where the head of some million dollar firm falls in love with some poor penniless female and is constantly amazed at the ways of the "lower classes." If this type of picture is mainly produced for its artistic merit, then this merit is too subtle to be detected. After you have seen the picture you ask yourself: "Whose intelligence should be underestimated—mine or the producer's?

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