Movie
Easy to Wed
Musical film with a runtime of 110 minutes, released in 1946. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
This Technicolor musical remake of the 1936 comedy classic Libeled Lady isn't quite up to the standards of the original, but on its own terms is quite entertaining. Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball and Keenan Wynn expertly assume the roles originally played by William Powell, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy. Faced with a libel suit from socialite Connie Allenbury (Williams), newspaper editor Warren Haggerty (Wynn) cooks up a plan to beat Connie at her own game. To do this, he must rely upon the romantic chicanery of ex-employee Bill Stevens Chandler (Johnson), with Haggerty's fiancee Gladys Benton (Ball) caught in the middle. The comedy high point of the original Libeled Lady, in which William Powell is forced to demonstrate his (non-existent) prowess as a fisherman, is ably repeated in Easy to Wed when Van Johnson must prove his skills at duck-hunting. The songs aren't anything special, but Lucille Ball's superb comic performance is worth the admission price in itself.
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Cast
- Esther Williams
- Van Johnson
- Lucille Ball
- Keenan Wynn
- Cecil Kellaway
- Carlos Ramirez
- Ben Blue
- Ethel Smith
- June Lockhart
- Grant Mitchell
- Josephine Whittell
- Paul Harvey
- Jonathan Hale
- James Flavin
- Celia Travers
- Sybil Merritt
- Sondra Rodgers
- Robert Emmett O'Connor
- Karin Booth
- Dick Winslow
- George Calliga
- Tom Dugan
- Frank S. Hagney
- Walter Soderling
- Milt Kibbee
- Sarah Edwards
- Mitzie Uehlein
- Mildred Sellers
- Robert E. O'Connor
- Phyllis Graffeo
- Kanza Omar
- Louise Burnette
- Patricia Denise
- Charles Knight
- Guy Bates Post
- John Valentine
- Chavo De Leon
- Nina Bara
- Milton Kibbee
- Jack Shea
- Katherine Black
- Joel Friedkin
- Charles Sullivan
- Frank Hagney
- Monte Blue
- Jean Porter
- Fred Fisher
- Alex Pollard
- Edwin B. Willis
- Dorothy Kingsley
- Cedric Gibbons
- Howard Emmet Rogers
- Irene
- Jack Dawn
- Blanche Sewell
- Ted Duncan
- Hans Peters
- Jack Donohue
- Harry Stradling
- George Oppenheimer
- Valles
