Easy to Wed (1946)

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Easy to Wed is a 1946 Technicolor American musical comedy film directed by Edward Buzzell, and starring Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball, and Keenan Wynn. The screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley is an adaptation of the screenplay of the 1936 film Libeled Lady by Maurine Dallas Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, and George Oppenheimer.

Production

As noted in the opening credits, this film was adapted from the screenplay of the 1936 film Libeled Lady, a non-musical comedy starring Jean Harlow as Gladys Benton, William Powell as Bill Chandler, Myrna Loy as Connie Allenbury, and Spencer Tracy as Warren Haggerty.

In July 1944, MGM announced they would remake Libleled Lady, with Jack Cummings to produce. In November Van Johnson and Lucille Ball were announced as stars. Later that month the film was retitled Early to Wed and Esther Williams and Keenan Wynn joined the film.

In March 1945, filming was halted when Wynn was in a motorbike accident.

This was the first film in which Williams sang, and she had to work with Harriet Lee, the MGM voice coach. However, Williams's singing part was actually in Portuguese, making it all the more difficult for her. The studio then hired Carmen Miranda to coach both Williams and Johnson.

This was Johnson and Williams's second film together, after Thrill of a Romance, which had been extremely successful at the box office. Williams said the two had been cast because "Van and I matched. It looked like we belonged together as a couple. He was as much the all-American boy as I was the all-American girl. As World War II drew to a close, we...became icons, in a way, symbolizing the virtues that people loved best about America.

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