June Bride is one of the last movies Bette Davis made for Warner Brothers in 1948. The gist of the plot is that magazine editor Linda Gilman (Bette Davis) and her team are sent to Indiana for a magazine feature on a June wedding. A new member of her team is a foreign correspondent Carry Jackson (Robert Montgomery) who had been involved with Linda in the past.
Bette Davis wasn't known for her comedies, but I enjoyed her work in It's Love I'm After, The Bride Came C.O.D., and The Man Who Came to Dinner. She's good in June Bride too.
I never liked Robert Montgomery in this film. He was annoying, smirking, and making faces. I recently read on IMDB that Bette wanted either Jack Carson or Dennis Morgan for the part of Carey Jackson. Jack Carson is underrated; he was good in both comedy and drama. Dennis Morgan was wonderful as the sailor in the comedy Christmas in Connecticut. At any rate, neither Jack Carson nor Dennis Morgan would have annoyed me as much as Montgomery did.
Here's more from IMDB: Bette Davis was originally cast as the lead in Christmas in Connecticut. Barbara Stanwyck was terrific, but I wonder at what might have been.
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