Young Bride (1932)
5/10
Keeping the marriage intact....
29 May 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Helen Twelvetrees once again has her work cut out for her. She is in love with the charming but childish Eric Linden, a boy/man who is always searching for an easy way to get rich quick without regards to his responsibility. This leads him to fall in with the wrong crowd, and on the day he finds out his new bride is preggers, he goes out and has one congratulatory drink after another. She does her best to hold the marriage together, but when you're married to a loser like Linden, that's a difficult thing to do.

This enjoyable pre-code drama has a lot going for it, especially some amusing character performances. Roscoe Ates, "the stutterer", always chooses lots of words that begin with "B" that result in "Ba ba ba ba", so when he tries to say "Baby", it comes out all wrong, and he ultimately changes it to "little one" or something like that. "Ukilele Ike" (Cliff Edwards) is also present and adds some amusement as well. Twelvetrees and Linden make an enchanting pair that prove the old adage that the hardest years of marriage are "the First Hundred Years", and if you can make it through that, you can make it through anything.
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