The Bride Wore Red is a 1937 motion picture, directed by Dorothy Arzner, and starring Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Robert Young and Billie Burke. It was based on the unproduced play The Bride from Trieste by Ferenc Molnár. In this "rags to riches" tale, Crawford plays a cabaret singer who poses as an aristocrat. This film was the last of seven Crawford and co-star Franchot Tone would make together. In a Trieste gambling casino, the cynical Count Armalia tells his friend Rudi Pal that the only thing separating aristocrats from peasants is luck. Later, in a waterfront cafe, he decides... to prove his point by offering the club's singer, Anni Pavlovitch , money and a wardrobe to stay at an upper class resort hotel in the Alps for two weeks and pose as his friend Anne Vivaldi, an aristocrat's daughter. When Anni first arrives, she meets Giulio , a philosophical postal clerk who has no desire for wealth. She also meets her old friend Maria , who is happy being a maid in the hotel and warns Anni not to become the victim of Armalia's joke on his friends.
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| Release date: | October 15, 1937 |
| Directed by: | Dorothy Arzner |
| Runtime: | 103 Minutes |
| Producer: | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Editor: | Adrienne Fazan |
| Cinematography: | George J. Folsey |
| Genre: | Comedy |