The Kidnapped Bride is a lost 1914 American silent comedy film produced by the Lubin Manufacturing Company, starring Eva Bell, Raymond McKee, Frank Griffin, and Oliver Hardy.
It was a sequel to A Brewerytown Romance, which featured the same cast and characters, and was released a month earlier, on June 2, 1914.
[2] Like A Brewerytown Romance, The Kidnapped Bride is notable for an early screen appearance by Oliver Hardy (credited by his nickname, Babe Hardy), who played supporting and occasionally starring roles in many of the Lubin comedies produced by the Jacksonville unit in 1914 and 1915.
[2] The Kidnapped Bride was described by Moving Picture World as "burlesque in the broadest sense",[3] but it received more positive reviews in the trade papers than A Brewerytown Romance.
Motion Picture News called it "a laugh throughout",[4] and the New York Dramatic Mirror wrote "Rapid fire comedy presented in a sure manner and a hard-working cast characterize this short farce offering".