The Groom Wore Spurs

Jack Carson is a singing cowboy star who can't sing, can't ride, and is afraid of guns. He can lose $60,000 to gambler Stanley Ridges. So his studio hires lawyer Ginger Rogers to negotiate with Ridges. But on spending the evening with him in Las Vegas, they get married. Ridges, who was a friend of her father, forgives the debt as a wedding present. That, it turns out, was Carson's plan all along. Miss Rogers decides, at the advice of roommate Joan Davis, to make a man of Carson.

It's one of those movies which are occasionally amusing without being actually funny. Miss Davis certainly tries, but the script goes from post-war, Code-compliant grouchiness to over-the-top frantic with no build-up. Everyone tries hard under director Richard Whorf (who makes an uncredited appearance as a motion picture director). Also appearing are John Litel, Victor Sen Yung, George Meader, Franklyn Farnum, and Ross Hunter.