The Bride Wore Boots

The Bride Wore Boots is ridiculous, yet only marginally humorous. All these things could only happen in a 40's screwball comedy, including little kids with guns and then on a horse. Barbara Stanwyck's good and her character mischievous, unfortunately Cummings isn't up to par.

Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Cummings are married but having problems. She loves horses and he doesn't. He keeps getting caught in compromising positions that aren't of his own doing. Natalie Wood is one of their children. She has a very minor part. Sort of cute and worth watching if you like one of the stars.

The performance given by robert cummings is good.He gets caught by his wife barbara stanwyck in the arms of diana lynn several times.Not by his own doing but he gets blamed anyway.Diana Lynn played a role of manipulation and did it very convincingly.And barbara stanwyck played the wife who is always one step ahead of everyone.

In a recent biography of Barbara Stanwyck I read that The Bride Wore Boots was a flop at the post war box office in 1946. After watching the film my conclusion was that the movie going public was looking for more serious work in the post World War 2 world. Before 1942 this might have actually made some money for Paramount. Stanwyck plays a Virginia girl from the country club horsey set who married a Yankee writer played by Robert Cummings. Barbara loves her horses and her husband can't stand them and is not at one with the horse when he tries to ride. There's also Patric Knowles who is a neighbor and who is after Barbara and mushmouth southern belle Diana Lynn who is circling like a bird of prey over Bob. The climax is a steeplechase race with Cummings as a game, but totally hopeless rider. Prety funny stuff. Not the best of Stanwyck films out there, but not too bad.