Happy Is the Bride

Happy Is the Bride - 1957 | 85 mins | Comedy | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Roy Boulting.
Producer: Paul Soskin.
Script: Roy Boulting and Jeffrey Dell. (from the play by Esther McCracken)
Cinematography: Edward Scaife.
Editing: Anthony Harvey.
Art Direction: Albert Witherick.
Original Music: Benjamin Frankel.

The Cast

Ian Carmichael - David Chaytor
Janette Scott - Janet Royd
Cecil Parker - Arthur Royd
Joyce Grenfell - Aunt Florence
Eric Barker - Vicar
Edith Sharpe - Mildred Royd
Elvi Hale - Petula
John Le Mesurier - Chaytor
Nicholas Parsons - John Royd
Virginia Maskell - Marcia
Thorley Walters - Jim
Irene Handl - Mme. Edna
Miles Malleson - Magistrate

Plot Synopsis

Directed by co-scriptwriter Roy Boulting, this hectic comedy with delightful cameos by the likes of Cecil Parker, Terry-Thomas and Joyce Grenfell was a remake of Anthony Asquith's Quiet Wedding (1940). It seems a romantic idyll when David (Ian (Carmichael) proposes to Janet (Janette Scott) during a cricket match. But when the wedding is announced, Janet's parents (Cecil Parker, Edith Sharpe) take over and proceed to cause chaos with their well-intentioned interfering. Aunt Florence (Joyce Grenfell) forecasts disaster. Janet's sister (Virginia Maskell) arrives, claiming to have left her husband. Janet and David try to escape by embarking on a long car journey, but he is arrested for a driving offence, and a police car takes them to their wedding.