The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930'sWritten with erudition, insight, and enthusiasm, Runaway Bride is a brilliant mix of film and social history that renews our vision and broadens our understanding of some of the best-loved movies ever made, and the complex, Depression-influenced circumstances from which they were born. |
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