The Well Groomed Bride is a 1946 American romantic comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Olivia de Havilland, Ray Milland, and Sonny Tufts.

Written by Claude Binyon and Robert Russell, the film is about a man and a woman who fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco—he wants it to christen a new aircraft carrier, and she wants it as the centerpiece for her upcoming wedding reception.

[1] In the spring of 1945 in San Francisco, United States Navy lieutenant Dudley Briggs is promised a two-week furlough and a promotion by his ship's captain if he can acquire a bottle of French champagne by the next morning to be used in launching of the U.S.S.

Unfortunately, he loses the bottle to a beautiful young woman named Margie Dawson, who is about to be married to Army lieutenant Torchy McNeil, an Oregon football star, whom she has not seen in two years.

Their date is interrupted by Dudley's commanding officer, captain Hornby, who has them arrested and arranges for Margie herself to christen the ship with the bottle of French champagne.

Torchy, the former football star, makes a perfect pass with the bottle of champagne, and Margie christens the ship.