The Bride Wore Red is a 1937 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Dorothy Arzner, and starring Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Robert Young and Billie Burke.

In a Trieste casino, the cynical Count Armalia (George Zucco) tells his friend Rudi Pal (Robert Young) that life is “a great roulette wheel”.

He offers the singer, Anni Pavlovitch (Joan Crawford), money, a wardrobe and a two-week stay at Terrano, an elegant resort in the Tyrol.

When Anni arrives at the Terrano train station, she gets a ride to the hotel from Giulio (Franchot Tone), a philosophical and poetical postman who has no ambition, no desire for wealth, and is not impressed by her haughty attitude.

One day, Maria looked into a mirror and was frightened by the wrinkles and heavy makeup that foretold her “finish.” She has built a new, happy life at the hotel.

That evening, dressed in pale lace, Anni struggles with the menu and table service until a waiter helps her, discreetly.

At the costume party, Anni snubs Giulio when he offers her edelweiss, a symbol of devoted love found only in remote, dangerous mountain heights.

“You can't remember the waterfront because you are still there.” During dinner, Giulio brings a copy of the telegram to the hotel; the bellboy delivers it to the Contessa, who shows it to the others.

Howard Barnes of the New York Herald Tribune wrote, "Joan Crawford has a glamorous field day in The Bride Wore Red.... With a new hair-do and more wide-eyed than ever, she plays at being a slattern, a fine lady, and a peasant with all of the well-known Crawford sorcery.

The direction of Dorothy Arzner is always interesting and sometimes...is extraordinarily imaginative, but here she has not been able to give a vapid Cinderella pipe dream more than a handsome pictorial front."