Strain and Harmony in American-Japanese War-Bride Marriages

1954 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anselm L. Strauss
Keyword(s):  
War Bride

The Demise of the War Bride

2010 ◽  
pp. 203-236
Author(s):  
Susan Zeiger
Keyword(s):  
War Bride

Chapter 22

2020 ◽  
pp. 295-310
Author(s):  
Mark Glancy
Keyword(s):  
Box Office ◽  
Political Drama ◽  
Screwball Comedy ◽  
Howard Hawks ◽  
War Bride

When Cary Grant coaxed Betsy Drake to join him in Hollywood in 1948, he did everything he could to kickstart her career as a film star. He used his own leverage with the powerful gossip columnists Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons to win favourable coverage for Drake, and he agreed to co-star with Drake in her first film, Every Girl Should Be Married (1948). He turned down several other promising films, including Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948), to make this feeble comedy. His next film was Howard Hawks’ screwball comedy I Was a Male War Bride (1949). Filming began on location in Europe, but Grant developed hepatitis and nearly died. It was several months before he could complete filming in Hollywood. The film turned out to be a huge box-office success, but the grim political drama Crisis (1950), was a box-office disaster that marked the beginning of a downturn in his career fortunes. By this time, however, he had married Betsy Drake, in a ceremony arranged by Howard Hughes, and he was looking forward to his new life with her.

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