Joan Crawford's identification as a shop girl came I think with this film, Our Blushing Brides. She's sharing a flat with two other department store working
girls Anita Page and Dorothy Sebastian. And Joan's the only one sensible about
men.
Crawford has her eye on the son of the department store owner Robert Montgomery. But this woman wants no entanglements unless a wedding ring comes with it.
As for Page she plunges into an affair with Raymond Hackett who Montgomery's younger brother. But Hackett dumps her to marry a society girl Martha Sleeper.
Sebastian is wild and silly and likes a good time. She falls for John Miljan who made a career out of playing suave no accounts like the one he plays here. His activities come to the attention of law enforcement and Sebastian is caught up in it.
By this Crawford and Montgomery had futures in talkies and they were mainstays at MGM throughout the decade. Both are shone to their best advantage.
Page however wins acting honors here for some highly dramatic scenes surrounding her fate and Crawford is also part of that climax as well.
Our Blushing Brides hold up well after over 80 years.
Crawford has her eye on the son of the department store owner Robert Montgomery. But this woman wants no entanglements unless a wedding ring comes with it.
As for Page she plunges into an affair with Raymond Hackett who Montgomery's younger brother. But Hackett dumps her to marry a society girl Martha Sleeper.
Sebastian is wild and silly and likes a good time. She falls for John Miljan who made a career out of playing suave no accounts like the one he plays here. His activities come to the attention of law enforcement and Sebastian is caught up in it.
By this Crawford and Montgomery had futures in talkies and they were mainstays at MGM throughout the decade. Both are shone to their best advantage.
Page however wins acting honors here for some highly dramatic scenes surrounding her fate and Crawford is also part of that climax as well.
Our Blushing Brides hold up well after over 80 years.