"OUR BLUSHING BRIDES” OPENS AT MAJESTIC.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 63, 16 March 1931, Page 3

"OUR BLUSHING BRIDES” OPENS AT MAJESTIC.

With the express intention of making it one of the outstanding productions of the year Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer went the limit in equipping the talkie “ Our Blushing Brides.” which ■will begin at the Majestic to-day, with lavish scenes, unusual settings and an outstanding cast. Three plots in one is the unusual feature connected with this film, which is Joan Crawford’s latest starring vehicle. The picture centres about three individual romances, namely that of Miss Crawford and Robert Montgomery, Anita Page and Raymond Hacket, and Dorothy Sebastian and John Miljan, the threads of the three separate romances tieing up with one another in a highly ingenious manner. Supporting roles are played by Hedda Hopper, Albert Conti, Mary Doran, Gwen Lee and other capable actors and actresses.

As an example of the trouble taken to make this film a sure success, instead of making department store scenes, which play an important part in the plot, within the confines of the studio at Culver City, the company hired the entire May Company Department Store in Los Angeles, where scenes were shot directly after closing time on a Saturday night, the entire personnel of the store being used as extras. In another instance, a fashion-show, filmed on outdoor pavilions, in what was represented as being the sunken-garden on the Long Island estate of a millionaire, required the designing upon the part of Adrian, studio fashion-creator, of more than a hundred costumes ranging all the way from sports clothes and the newest daring models in bathing outfits to sheerest lingerie and exquisite evening models. And as though this were npt enough spectacle, the producers topped it off with an Albertina Rasch ballet in which the girls dance in Grecian costumqg and white wigs under modernistic lighting arrangements. The Story presents a true-to-life picture of three working girls who long for the luxuries of life and discover what it costs to attain them. Miss Crawford is said to give the finest performance of her career, combining her well-known “ modern maiden ” characterisation with more mature acting.