Easy to Wed (1946)
- Starring:
- Van Johnson, Esther Williams, (more)
- Director(s):
- Edward N. Buzzell
Synopsis of Easy to Wed
This Technicolor musical remake of the 1936 comedy classic Libeled Lady isn't quite up to the standards of the original, but on its own terms is quite entertaining. Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball and Keenan Wynn expertly assume the roles originally played by William Powell, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy. Faced with a libel suit from socialite Connie Allenbury (Williams), newspaper editor Warren Haggerty (Wynn) cooks up a plan to beat Connie at her own game. To do this, he must rely upon the romantic chicanery of ex-employee Bill Stevens Chandler (Johnson), with Haggerty's fiancee Gladys Benton (Ball) caught in the middle. The comedy high point of the original Libeled Lady, in which William Powell is forced to demonstrate his (non-existent) prowess as a fisherman, is ably repeated in Easy to Wed when Van Johnson must prove his skills at duck-hunting. The songs aren't anything special, but Lucille Ball's superb comic performance is worth the admission price in itself. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Easy to Wed
- Van Johnson - Bill Stevens Chandler
- Lucille Ball - Gladys Benton
- Cecil Kellaway - J.B. Allenbury
- Carlos Ramirez - Himself
- Grant Mitchell - Homer Henshaw
- Celia Travers - Farwood's Secretary
- Sondra Rodgers - Attendant
- Mitzie Uehlein
- Ben Blue - Spike Dolan
- Jonathan Hale - Hector Boswell
- Fred Fisher
- Dick Winslow - Orchestra Leader
- Charles Sullivan
- Guy Bates Post
- Alex Pollard - Waiter
- Phyllis Graffeo
- George Calliga - Headwaiter
- Charles Knight
- Frank S. Hagney - Truck Driver
- Karin [Katharine] Booth - Clerk
- Sarah Edwards - Mr. & Mrs. Dibson
- Esther Williams - Connie Allenbury
- Keenan Wynn - Warren Haggerty
- June Lockhart - Babs Norvell
- Ethel Smith - Herself
- James Flavin - Joe
- Sybil Merritt - Receptionist
- Kanza Omar
- Nina Bara - Rumba Dancer
- Joel Friedkin - Justice of the Peace
- Milt Kibbee - Private Detective
- Jack Shea - Lifeguard
- Josephine Whittell - Mrs. Burns Norvell
- Walter Soderling
- Jean Porter - Frances
- Robert E. O'Connor - Taxi Driver
- John Valentine - Butler
- Tom Dugan - Waiter
- Paul Harvey - Farwood
- Monte Blue
- Patricia Denise - Girls at Pool
- Director(s):
- Edward N. Buzzell
- Writer(s):
- Dorothy Kingsley, Maurine Watkins, Howard Emmet Rogers
- Producer(s):
- Jack Cummings
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