STRANGE MARRIAGE aka Slightly Married (1932) Evalyn Knapp & Walter Byron | Comedy, Romance | B&W

Strange Marriage, also known as Slightly Married, is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Evalyn Knapp, Walter Byron and Marie Prevost.

SYNOPSIS
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced in night court, to jail for vagrancy. But a stranger, Jimmy Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married. A minister stands up and offers to perform the ceremony. Mary is appreciative to her 'new' husband for saving her from jail, but she sees him as a rich playboy who got drunk and decided to be gallant. She tells him to move on, but he persists on taking care of his wife. Just as she has decided that she loves him, his parents show up with a wealth of objections.

Drunk upper-class Jimmy Martin saves complete stranger Mary Smith from being sent to jail by backing up her story that she was waiting for a man who was going to marry her when she was arrested at a street corner. The suspicious judge offers to unite them on the spot, but Jimmy takes him up on it. When he sobers up, he falls in love with her, despite already having a fiancée. When his mother finds out, she threatens to have his income cut off (he will not gain control of his fortune for two years). This causes a misunderstanding. Jimmy comes to believe that Mary was interested only in his money when Mary offers to let him out of the marriage, whereas she has really fallen in love with him and merely has his best interests at heart.

CAST & CREW
Evalyn Knapp as Mary Smith
Walter Byron as Jimmy Martin
Marie Prevost as Nellie Gordon
Jason Robards Sr. as Jack Haines
Dorothy Christy as Marjorie Reynolds
Clarissa Selwynne as Mrs. Martin
Phillips Smalley as Mr. Martin
Herbert Evans as Hodges
Robert Ellis as Brandon
Lloyd Ingraham as Judge
Mary Foy as Landlady
Al Bridge as Tenant
Bobby Burns as Minister
Allan Cavan as Banker
Jack Pennick as Sailor

Directed by Richard Thorpe
Written by Mary McCarthy
Produced by George R. Batcheller
Cinematography M.A. Anderson
Edited by Roland D. Reed
Music by Lee Zahler
Production company Invincible Pictures
Distributed by Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation
Release date October 15, 1932
Running time 65 minutes
Country United States
Language English

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