Bride by Mistake (1944)

Director
Richard Wallace

Main cast
Laraine Day; Alan Marshal; Marsha Hunt; Allyn Joslyn; Edgar Buchanan

Genres
Comedy

Description
Norah is very rich, owns her own shipyard and has Sylvia double for her at all outside functions. But Sylvia is now married and wants to go to Washington with her new husband while Norah's latest fiance has dumped her. Determined not to make money an issue, she invites all the officers to her house for tea and has Sylvia again play Norah...


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