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Champagne pour deux

Original title: The Well Groomed Bride
  • 1946
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 15m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
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Olivia de Havilland, Ray Milland, and Sonny Tufts in Champagne pour deux (1946)
ComedyRomance

A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship.A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship.A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship.

  • Director
    • Sidney Lanfield
  • Writers
    • Claude Binyon
    • Robert Russell
  • Stars
    • Olivia de Havilland
    • Ray Milland
    • Sonny Tufts
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.7/10
    197
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Sidney Lanfield
    • Writers
      • Claude Binyon
      • Robert Russell
    • Stars
      • Olivia de Havilland
      • Ray Milland
      • Sonny Tufts
    • 10User reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Olivia de Havilland
    Olivia de Havilland
    • Margie Dawson
    Ray Milland
    Ray Milland
    • Lt. Dudley Briggs
    Sonny Tufts
    Sonny Tufts
    • Lt. Torchy McNeil
    James Gleason
    James Gleason
    • Capt. Hornby
    Constance Dowling
    Constance Dowling
    • Rita Sloane
    Percy Kilbride
    Percy Kilbride
    • Mr. Dawson
    Jean Heather
    Jean Heather
    • Wickley
    Jay Norris
    • Mitch
    John R. Reilly
    John R. Reilly
    • Buck
    • (as Jack Reilly)
    George Turner
    George Turner
    • Goose
    Don Beddoe
    Don Beddoe
    • Hotel Clerk
    • (uncredited)
    Jean Carlin
    • Elevator Girl
    • (uncredited)
    Luke Chan
    • Chinese Man
    • (uncredited)
    Roger Creed
    • MP
    • (uncredited)
    Tom Dillon
    Tom Dillon
    • Mr. Bennett
    • (uncredited)
    Tom Dugan
    Tom Dugan
    • Charlie
    • (uncredited)
    William Edmunds
    • Mr. Whortle
    • (uncredited)
    Charles Eggleston
    Charles Eggleston
    • MP
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Sidney Lanfield
    • Writers
      • Claude Binyon
      • Robert Russell
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    5Doylenf

    The sparkle is missing in flat comedy

    Before Olivia de Havilland made her remarkable comeback in 1946's To Each His Own, she stepped in as a last minute replacement for Paulette Goddard in 'The Well Groomed Bride', her first film after her two year legal battle with Warner Bros. Unfortunately, the script is so slight (about de Havilland and Milland fighting over rights to the last champagne bottle in San Francisco--she wants it for her wedding, he wants it to christen a ship). The laughs are scant although Olivia, Ray Milland and Sonny Tufts try hard to keep things bubbling. De Havilland manages to be pert and pretty as the heroine, Milland is his usual adept self at comedy and even Sonny Tufts manages to make his big "conceited muscle" role likeable at times--but the whole thing fails to get off the ground. The weak script defeats everyone, including Percy Kilbride as de Havilland's dad. Only avid fans of Ray Milland or de Havilland should watch this one--which does not turn up on TV these days--Paramount obviously deciding it wasn't worth saving.
    telegonus

    Not Without Its Virtues

    This is not the funniest comedy ever made, but it is proficient, as written by Claude Binyon and directed by Sidney Lanfield, both of whom had done far better work than this; and while it's no masterpiece it's not a total loss by any means. There's a touch of late screwball in Ray Milland and Olivia de Havilland warring over a champagne bottle. And the mood of austerity in the America of the war and immediate postwar years is well-captured, albeit in a stylized and slick fashion. Still, champagne is champagne, and the movie's fetishistic obsession with it is indicative of Hollywood's desire to get back to making more formalized, safer films, of which this is a fairly decent attempt. But it is at its best an aborted effort to capture a mood that was pretty much gone by the time the movie was made, as the mood of the film gives no indication of where the postwar world was heading. Still and all, it's a nice stab at staving off the inevitable.
    bogator

    Where is this film?

    As a long-time deHavilland fan, I've been looking for this film for years. It's never been on VHS or AMC/TCM. Anyone know why it's MIA? Surely it's not her best or among the greatest by far, but it seems strange it's never turned up somewhere!
    4boblipton

    All the Women Want to Marry Sonny Tufts

    Captain James Gleason orders Lieutenant Ray Milland to get a bottle of French champagne to launch the new aircraft carrier. However, Olivia de Havilland has just bought the last bottle of French champagne in San Francisco for her nuptials with Sonny Tufts, who has spent two years in the Aleutians. How is Milland going to get the champagne and Miss de Havilland in this randomly named film?

    It's a rather flat romantic comedy directed by the usually very competent Sidney Lanfield, full of random gags and misunderstandings. Miss De Havilland had just spent two years fighting Warner Brothers in court so she wouldn't have to appear in muddled, unfunny comedies, and she had launched her newly serious career auspiciously enough with TO EACH HIS OWN and DEVOTION, only to follow it up with this rote effort. Neither of the leads shows any sparkle; the two comics, Gleason and Percy Kilbride (as de Havilland's father) lack any zest and Sonny Tufts, despite being the object of lust for a brace of screen beauties, remains a dull hunk of beef.
    5bkoganbing

    A bit of the bubbly

    Both Ray Milland and Olivia DeHavilland had to be asking how did they get into this rather slight comedy. The Well Groomed Bride is funny enough, but considering the history of these two stars they both should have figured for something better.

    In the case of Milland he had just come off his Oscar winning picture The Lost Weekend proving to Paramount he could handle heavy dramatics. This film is a return to what he'd been doing for a decade at Paramount.

    As for Olivia she had just gotten from Warner Brothers after a lengthy and historic battle to break her contact there. Jack Warner for the most part had cast her in these light comedies or has the heroine waiting for her man who was for the most part Errol Flynn. She had done Hold Back The Dawn with Paramount and gotten an Oscar nomination back in 1941. Maybe she figured she'd get good parts at that studio and instead was doing the same stuff she did with the Brothers Warner.

    Lt. Commander Milland is on a mission to obtain a magnum of champagne so a ship could be launched. But Olivia beats him to the last bottle of the bubbly that can be found in San Francisco and she wants to launch her marriage to former football hero Sonny Tufts with it. That starts a whole lot of maneuvering and of course ends the romance with Olivia and Tufts.

    Sonny Tufts was playing the part usually given Jack Carson over at Warner Brothers, the amiable blowhard. No wonder Olivia must have thought she never left.

    The Well Groomed Bride has its amusing moments, but it's chiffon light fare. Milland would continue to get light comic parts with a few dramatic ones to show his versatility. But Olivia's next few roles would earn her three Oscar nominations in a row and two Oscars with To Each His Own, The Snake Pit, and The Heiress.

    Turns out she made the right career move.

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    • Trivia
      This was Olivia de Havilland's first film after a two-year legal battle she waged against Warner Bros. regarding her rights under her contract, which she won.
    • Quotes

      Capt. Hornby: You mean a grown man can't get a bottle of champagne away from a girl with a simple American name like Margie Dawson?

      Lt. Dudley Briggs: I've tried everything sir, everything short of murder!

      Capt. Hornby: Well, what are you waiting for?

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    • Release date
      • May 17, 1946 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Well Groomed Bride
    • Filming locations
      • Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Paramount Pictures
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 15 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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