Double Wedding (1937)

Directed by

Richard Thorpe

Genre

romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A free-spirited artist disrupts the lives of a buttoned-up businessman and his fiancée. The chaos leads to multiple romantic entanglements and a double wedding.

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What happens

Double Wedding is a 1937 American screwball romantic comedy film starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, and featuring Florence Rice, John Beal, Jessie Ralph, and Edgar Kennedy. This was the seventh pairing of Powell and Loy, with another seven to go. It was directed by Richard Thorpe from a screenplay by Jo Swerling based on the unpublished play Nagy szerelem ("Great Love") by Ferenc Molnár. William Powell's girlfriend Jean Harlow died during production, halting filming. Powell later described finishing the film as "very difficult under the circumstances". Myrna Loy, who had been good friends with Harlow, wrote in her autobiography that she disliked the film because of Harlow's death and that it was "the scapegoat for concurrent despair". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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