The Groom Wore Spurs (1951)

A cowboy movie star (Jack Carson) and an attorney (Ginger Rogers) have a whirlwind romance and a quick wedding in Las Vegas. But after she finds out her bridegroom had ulterior motives other than romance on his mind when he hired her as his attorney, she leaves him. But not for long as a murder brings them back together. Based on the short story LEGAL WIFE by Robert Carson and directed by Richard Whorf (TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY). A lame romantic comedy that even drags in an unpleasant murder to try and bolster itself to no effect. Ginger Rogers and Jack Carson are expert farceurs but they flounder as the screenplay leaves them high and dry. Comedienne Joan Davis tries too but she's a poor substitute for Eve Arden. The premise of a romcom about a woman lawyer marrying a singing cowboy star who hates horses, has his singing voice dubbed and all his stunts done by a double has possibilities (or at least it did in 1951) but this one is as flat as a pancake. With Stanley Ridges, John Litel, Victor Sen Yung and Ross Hunter (who would later find success as a film producer).