By Glenn Erickson
Young Bride
Brief Synopsis
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
Cast & Crew
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William Seiter
Director
Helen Twelvetrees
Allie Smith Riggs
Eric Linden
Charlie Riggs
Arline Judge
Maizie
Roscoe Ates
Mike
Cliff Edwards
Pete
Film Details
Also Known As
Love Starved
Genre
Drama
Adaptation
Release Date
Apr
8,
1932
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
RKO Pathé Pictures, Inc.
Distribution Company
RKO Pathé Pictures, Inc.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play Veneer by Hugh Stange (New York, 12 Nov 1929).
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 16m
Film Length
8 reels
Synopsis
While in mourning for her mother, Allie Smith, a shy New York children's librarian, resists joining her rowdy friend Daisy and Daisy's boyfriend Pete on a double date but finally agrees to have dinner with them. At a "chop suey joint," Daisy introduces Allie to Charlie Riggs, a handsome but irresponsible braggart. When Allie refuses to go out alone with him, Charlie becomes morose and, in a drunken state, spends the night with Maizie, a taxi dancer. As she is taken with the smooth-talking Charlie, who is always on the verge of making a "big deal," Allie soon overcomes her shyness and joins him on a Hudson River cruise. After a romantic evening on the river, Allie and Charlie return to Allie's apartment, where they are caught kissing by Miss Gordon, Allie's friend and supervisor. Confronted by Miss Gordon, Charlie announces that he and Allie are engaged, and a short time later, the couple marry and take their honeymoon in Atlantic City. There, Charlie runs into his former employer, C. B. Chadwick, a wealthy Wall Street broker, who offers him a thirty-dollar-a-week job as a runner. Ever the braggart, however, Charlie tells Allie that he is about to make a lucrative stock deal with Chadwick. When Charlie confesses later that he lacks the cash to pay the hotel bill, Allie telephones Chadwick for a loan and learns the truth about her husband. Back in New York, Charlie's half-baked business ideas continue to fail, and Allie grows despondent with worry. Then, after he has begun seeing Maizie again, Charlie learns that Allie is pregnant and, filled with shame, sells several dance trophies that he had won with Maizie. With that money, Charlie wins sixty dollars in a crap game, but gives Maizie fifty dollars to enter them in a dance contest that night. Maizie runs off with the money, however, and when Charlie tries to convince Allie that he is solvent, she screams at him for his infidelities and tells him never to return home. While a disillusioned Allie contemplates suicide, Charlie confronts the deceitful Maizie in a speakeasy and instigates a brawl. Beaten, Charlie staggers home and, after swearing that he has changed for the good, begs Allie to forgive him. Convinced of his transformation, a wiser, stronger Allie embraces Charlie.
Director
William Seiter
Director
Cast
Helen Twelvetrees
Allie Smith Riggs
Eric Linden
Charlie Riggs
Arline Judge
Maizie
Roscoe Ates
Mike
Cliff Edwards
Pete
Blanche Frederici
Miss Gordon
Polly Walters
Daisy
Edmund Breese
C. B. Chadwick
Walter Percival
Allen Fox
Skeets
Crew
Irving Berlin
Composer
Harry Joe Brown
Associate Producer
Carroll Clark
Art Director
Garrett Fort
Screenwriter
Joseph Kane
Film Editor
Ed Kelly
Assistant Director
Arthur Miller
Photography
Jane Murfin
Additional Dialogue
Ralph Murphy
Additional Dialogue
David O. Selznick
Executive Producer
John Tribby
Recording
Film Details
Also Known As
Love Starved
Genre
Drama
Adaptation
Release Date
Apr
8,
1932
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
RKO Pathé Pictures, Inc.
Distribution Company
RKO Pathé Pictures, Inc.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play Veneer by Hugh Stange (New York, 12 Nov 1929).
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 16m
Film Length
8 reels
Articles
Young Bride -
Yet another interesting David O. Selznick production for RKO, Young Bride (1932) stars the noted beauty Helen Twelvetrees in an adaptation of the 1929 play Love Starved, a domestic drama about young newlyweds that illustrates the old saying 'marry in haste, repent at leisure.' Unhappy librarian Allie Smith (Twelvetrees) is wooed by Charlie Riggs (Eric Linden), a charming ne'er-do-well and poolroom braggart. Caught by Allie's boss in what looks like a compromising situation, they marry and for a time do their best to make the relationship work. But Charlie can't face reality, and misrepresents his humble messenger job as a partnership in a stock brokerage. He eventually drifts back into a relationship with a taxi dancer, Maizie (Arlene Judge). Learning that Allie is pregnant, Charlie scrapes some money together with the idea of making amends. But he's robbed just before Allie confronts him with his lies and infidelities. The last-minute reformation of the loutish husband, just in time to avert a suicide, didn't convince. Neither did some of the dated '20's jargon in Garret Fort's screenplay, such as the term 'wet smack' to represent a kiss, and 'boop-boop-a-doop.' Reviewers thought Helen Twelvetrees' efforts were wasted on the sordid story but had kind words for Arlene Judge 's entertaining bad girl, and the comic support of cheerful Cliff Edwards, stuttering Roscoe Ates and Polly Walters, whose character was labeled 'a dumb Dora type.' Producer Selznick's later output rejected working class misery in favor of glossy upscale fare, such as Made for Each Other (1939) and Since You Went Away (1944).
By Glenn Erickson
By Glenn Erickson
Young Bride -
Yet another interesting David O. Selznick production for RKO, Young Bride (1932) stars the noted beauty Helen Twelvetrees in an adaptation of the 1929 play Love Starved, a domestic drama about young newlyweds that illustrates the old saying 'marry in haste, repent at leisure.' Unhappy librarian Allie Smith (Twelvetrees) is wooed by Charlie Riggs (Eric Linden), a charming ne'er-do-well and poolroom braggart. Caught by Allie's boss in what looks like a compromising situation, they marry and for a time do their best to make the relationship work. But Charlie can't face reality, and misrepresents his humble messenger job as a partnership in a stock brokerage. He eventually drifts back into a relationship with a taxi dancer, Maizie (Arlene Judge). Learning that Allie is pregnant, Charlie scrapes some money together with the idea of making amends. But he's robbed just before Allie confronts him with his lies and infidelities. The last-minute reformation of the loutish husband, just in time to avert a suicide, didn't convince. Neither did some of the dated '20's jargon in Garret Fort's screenplay, such as the term 'wet smack' to represent a kiss, and 'boop-boop-a-doop.' Reviewers thought Helen Twelvetrees' efforts were wasted on the sordid story but had kind words for Arlene Judge 's entertaining bad girl, and the comic support of cheerful Cliff Edwards, stuttering Roscoe Ates and Polly Walters, whose character was labeled 'a dumb Dora type.' Producer Selznick's later output rejected working class misery in favor of glossy upscale fare, such as Made for Each Other (1939) and Since You Went Away (1944).
By Glenn Erickson
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This film was shown in the New York metropolitan area as Love Starved and was reviewed by some journals under that title.
