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They Wanted to Marry: Directed by Lew Landers. With Betty Furness, Gordon Jones, E.E. Clive, Patsy Parsons. Newspaper photographer Jim Tyler sneaks into a society girl's wedding, and the bride's sister (mad-cap heiress Sheila Hunter) decides she prefers him to her upper-crust suitors.
- (147)
- Adventure, Comedy, Romance
- Lew Landers
- 1937-02-05
They Wanted to Marry (1937) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Jim Tyler, photographer for The Daily Mail, is assigned to the wedding party of William Grover Hunter's daughter, Helen. However, he has to hide, in the room of the bride's sister, Sheila, when the publicity-shy Hunter discover he is a newspaper photographer.
They Wanted to Marry is a 1937 romantic comedy film directed by Lew Landers from a screenplay by Paul Yawitz and Ethel Borden, based on a story by Larry Bachmann and Daniel L. Teilhet. RKO produced and distributed the film, releasing it on February 5, 1937.
They Wanted to Marry (1937) Funny film for what it was. This short film -- one hour -- had a delightfully implausible plot and a few meaningless loose ends, but it provided the laughs. Betty Furness played Sheila Hunter very well, an independent-minded heiress who falls for the "nut," Jim Tyler (Gordon Jones).
They Wanted to Marry (1937) - Trivia on IMDb: Cameos, Mistakes, Spoilers and more...
They Wanted to Marry (1937) - According to an contemporary article in The Hollywood Reporter, Betty Furness and Gordon Jones were borrowed from MGM for this picture, and they replaced Louise Latimer and Owen Davis Jr. prior to production.
