Half a Bride is a 1928 American silent romance film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, and William Worthington.

Based on the short story "White Hands" by Arthur Stringer, and written by Doris Anderson, Percy Heath, and Julian Johnson, the film is about an impulsive thrill-seeking heiress who announces to her father that she entered into a "companionate marriage" with one of her party friends.

Filled with fashionable notions she learned from popular radio dramas, Patience insists that she and Edmunds enter into a "companionate marriage" (in name only) and live together as a couple, but without the sexual entanglements.

[4] Half a Bride is based on the short story "White Hands" by Arthur Stringer, first published in The Saturday Evening Post on July 30, 1927 (volume 200).

[3] The San Jose News described the film as "a frank and entertaining treatment of the now important marriage problem ... gives to the screen one of the greatest epics of all times".

"[8] Less impressed with the film, the Montreal Gazette described Half a Bride as "a rather familiar story told with none too great originality and lacking almost entirely the element of suspense.