The Secret Bride (1934)

The daughter (Barbara Stanwyck) of a state Governor (Arthur Byron) marries the state's Attorney General (Warren William) in secret. She intends to tell her father but before she does, a scandal involving her father taking a bribe from a man he pardoned breaks out and that scandal could wreck her new husband's career as well as her father's. Based on the play CONCEALMENT by Leonard Ide and directed by William Dieterle (DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER). Stanwyck was one busy lady in the early to mid 1930s (19 movies in the first five years of the decade) so it's natural that the quality of her films would be uneven. This routine mystery falls under the weak category though no fault of her own. As always she's wonderful but she can't save a lackluster script. Strictly for the Stanwyck completists and fans. With Glenda Farrell, Douglass Dumbrille, Henry O'Neill and Grant Mitchell.