Ready, set, Joan.
Click the link to watch The Bride Wore Red (1937).
I'll post some notes on the production in a thread. https://ok.ru/video/292826712718

Joan Crawford described The Bride Wore Red (1937) as ‘the story of a girl who steps on a lot of faces to get to the top’. Joan’s character Anni doesn’t really step on people but it sounds good.

Irving Thalberg had planned an adaptation of Ferenc Molnar’s play The Girl from Trieste with Luise Rainer in the starring role. But then Thalberg died and Rainer dropped out. Dorothy Arzner said that Mayer suspended Rainer for marrying a Communist (Clifford Odets).

George Zucco, as Count Armalia, conducts his own little social experiment, as bored rich folks are known to do. Notice how quickly Joan Crawford figures out that he's there for kicks. She's seen his kind before.

Louis B Mayer took over the production and took it in a new direction that was based on a wholesome Cinderella fairy tale rather than a story about class politics.

A two week holiday, credit in the fancy boutique?
Who could say no?
Joan looks great before the makeover, natch.

I would kill you all for Joan’s blue coat

That's Joan's second husband, Franchot Tone.
No lie, he was a descendant of Wolfe Tone!
They made 7 pictures together.

Joan Crawford made love triangles her bread and butter in the 1930s. Franchot Tone was her co-star in many of the ‘which man will she choose’ pictures. This time, Clark Gable isn’t around to win Joan (as he was for Dancing Lady and Love on the Run).

Joan's one of the baby birds! This bit of symbolism has the hallmarks of producer Joseph L Mankiewicz.
Pure class.

Dorothy Arzner first worked with Joan when she took over direction for The Last of Mrs Cheney (1937). Richard Boleslawski had started directing the picture and then tragically had a heart attack and died before he could finish.

Boleslawski was only 47.
He was a magnificent director of woman’s pictures such as Beauty for Sale (1933), The Painted Veil (1934), Theodora Goes Wild (1936) and The Garden of Allah (1936). Boleslawski also wrote a book on acting.