Double Wedding

United States

1937

87 Min

Black and White

1.37:1

English

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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SCR Ferenc Molnár, Jo Swerling

DP William H. Daniels, Harold Rosson

CAST William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice, John Beal, Jessie Ralph, Edgar Kennedy, Sidney Toler, Mary Gordon, Barnett Parker, Katharine Alexander, Priscilla Lawson, Bert Roach

Charles Lodge (William Powell), a freewheeling film director who lives in a car trailer, interrupts the well-ordered life of Margit Agnew (Myrna Loy) when he convinces her younger sister Irene (Florence Rice) that she should become an actress. However, Margit is determined that Irene will marry her fiancé of four years, the pliable Waldo (John Beal). Fed up with Waldo’s easy-going nature, Irene decides that she is infatuated with Charles. Charles pretends to return her feelings so he can stay close to Margit. He agrees to give up Irene if Margit will let him paint her portrait. However, Irene comes unexpectedly to his trailer and Margit, believing he lied about giving Irene up, angrily destroys the painting and has him arrested. Charles arranges for a wedding, planning to marry Margit, but circumstances push him into marrying Irene. During the ceremony Charles and Margit finally admit that they really love each other and Waldo arrives to punch Charles out and take back his fiancée. —Wikipedia

Director

Richard Thorpe

Richard Thorpe (February 24, 1896 – May 1, 1991) was an American film director. Born Rollo Smolt Thorpe in Hutchinson, Kansas, he began his entertainment career performing in vaudeville and onstage. In 1921 he began in motion pictures as an actor and directed his first silent film in 1923. He went on to direct more than one hundred and eighty films. The first full length motion picture he directed for MGM was Last of the Pagans (1935) starring Ray Mala. After directing The Last Challenge in 1967, he retired from the film industry. He died in Palm Springs, California in 1991. Thorpe is also known as the original director of The Wizard of Oz. He was fired after two weeks of shooting, because it was felt that his scenes did not have the right air of fantasy about them. Thorpe notoriously gave Judy Garland a blonde wig and cutesy “baby-doll” makeup that made her look like a girl in her late teens rather than an innocent Kansas farm girl of about thirteen. Both makeup and wig were discarded… read more