The Reluctant Bride

Tempean Films' twenty-fifth release in seven years was a change from their usual diet of crime films with by their standards a moderately ambitious attempt at 'sophisticated' Hollywood-style romantic comedy in which bespectacled bluestocking Virginia Bruce (and author of 'Birth Control of the Insects') gets involved with a gaggle of precocious kids and discards her glasses to fall into the arms of fellow ex-pat John Carroll. It however only hit cinemas after three years on the shelf and took yet another two years to reach America. (Seen today it has the additional interest of seeing John Gilbert's last wife sharing the screen with the future Captain Mainwaring.)