June Bride

directed by Bretaigne Windust
Category: "Comedy"
Year of Release:1948
Date Added:11/21/2019
Date Watched:11/21/2019
Description:Journalist Carey Jackson (Robert Montgomery) finds himself reassigned as a writer for a home and garden magazine edited by his old flame Linda Gilman (Bette Davis). They attempt to keep things professional as they travel to small-town Indiana to cover the wedding of a young woman named Jeanne and her fiance Bud. Carey isn't content to cover a story he thinks is schmaltzy. When he finds out that Jeanne's younger sister Boo (Betty Lynn) is in love with Bud and that Jeanne was once engaged to Bud's older brother Jim, Carey arranges to have Jim show up for the wedding. Jeanne and Jim run off together, ruing Linda's story. Her feelings for Carey had been relit, but when her story is ruined, she fires him, not realizing that he has provided her with a much better story. Carey arranges to get Boo and Bud together and they soon decide to get married. Linda goes in search of Carey to apologize and say she'll marry him.
My Rating:6

Reviews for June Bride

Review - June Bride

I liked the story, but I wasn't crazy about the actors playing the leads. Montgomery seems a bit soft and effeminate to be the ladies' man he plays here. I've never been a fan of Bette Davis—she's a bit to unfeminine for my taste, kinda like Katherine Hepburn, but not quite that bad. At times in this movie, I liked her character, but then she would walk across a room like a truck driver and ruin the mood.

Reviewed by Roger on 2019-11-21 18:31:07

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