Bride by Mistake

The Richest Girl In The World is given a remake and a slight update to reflect wartime conditions. Tycoon Laraine Day with her trusty Noah Dietrich type Edgar Buchanan is busy dedicating a new Liberty ship from one of her yards. But it ain't Laraine Day. It's Marsha Hunt pretending to be Laraine Day. One wonders why Howard Hughes never thought of this. Having someone double as him for all public appearances. Not that he couldn't have afforded it, even affording the plastic surgery if that was necessary.

Day has Barbara Hutton like worries. Can I ever know if I'm loved for me or my megabucks? Marsha Hunt might not be available any more for the deception as she wants to get married to Allyn Joslyn..

A flier played by Alan Marshal might be the answer.; She met him at a USO hall under an alias. I think you can figure the rest out.

Bride By Mistake is a good comedy product from the MGM B picture unit where the films come out like they had bigger budgets and bigger stars than they do. The film is impeccably cast and good performances all around.

To only have the problems of a Howard Hughes.

After Norman Krasna's Oscar-winning script for Princess O'Rourke turned into a box-office hit for Warners in 1943, RKO rehashed his similar rich-girl-masquerading-as-poor-girl story "Richest Girl in the World" for this film in 1944. The result is mixed, but Day is so lovely, supporting cast is lively, that it makes for a pleasant hour and a half. Day plays an heiress who's boyfriend dumps her because she's too rich (yeah, right.) Day switches places with her secretary, hoping to find true love that way, and complications ensue. Marsha Hunt and Allen Joslyn are particularly appealing as Day's Secretary and her new husband, forced to carry the charade to the point of breaking. A nice 40's wartime romantic comedy, not too taxing on the mind.

I have been watching a lot of old movies recently on TMC and this is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time Yes its old Yes its Sortof Campy but i really enjoyed it, i first saw Alan Marshal in "Married and in love" and something about his cheesy charming act was entertaining, So i watched this film also. I am of an entirely different generation born in the 80's there is something timeless about this film, Screwing up everything with love is relatable, i wont give away the ending because the film keeps you guessing till the end and from what I've seen from that era that uncertainty of the plot for the audience is a rarity.

Well this is a good one i recommend it to anyone

Laraine Day stars with Alan Marshal, Marsha Hunt, and Allyn Joslyn in "Bride by Mistake," from 1944. This is a rehash of "The Richest Girl in the World" and maybe a few other films.

Day plays the world-famous heiress Norah Hunter, but no one sees her. Her secretary Sylvia (Hunt) poses at her at ship christenings, etc.

Sylvia is engaged to Phil Vernon (Joslyn), and she gives her notice so that she can be with him, as he is changing jobs and leaving town. Norah is due to marry soon and decides to move up the wedding so that Sylvia and Phil can attend. It doesn't work out because that night, her boyfriend dumps her. She's too rich. Like I suppose that happens.

When Norah meets Captain Anthony Travis, she's interested, but she doesn't want him knowing who she is - he might fall for her because she has money. She tests him by throwing Sylvia at him. And it turns into a big mess.

Pleasant comedy, with Day totally radiant and beautiful. I don't know why MGM couldn't come up with more for her to do - instead she was constantly loaned out. Marsha Hunt is delightful as Sylvia, and the rest of the cast is very good.

Enjoyable.

Laraine Day is so rich that her fiance walks out on her; he can't stand living in a goldfish bowl. When she falls for pilot Alan Marshall (who gives a performance suggesting that Errol Flynn was intended for the role), she switches roles with Marsha Hunt, who is her public-appearance double.

It's a wartime remake of THE RICHEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, and pretty good. The supporting cast all hit their marks, including Allyn Joslyn as Miss Hunt's husband, Edgar Buchanan as Miss Day's mother-henning advisor, and Slim Summerville as Miss Day's perpetually bemused factotum. Under the direction of Richard Wallace, the situations strain the bounds of credibility without ever quite breaking them, and a couple of the gag sequences, like when Miss Day sets off the watering system to drench Marshall and Miss Hunt, are quite funny.

Marsha Hunt never quite achieved stardom. Between a turn on the Blacklist, and, in her own words, "I never learned how to sell Marsha Hunt," she has had a long, if not stellar career. Still, she's still alive at 103 as I write this, one of the few survivors of wartime Hollywood.