The Groom Wore Spurs

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The Groom Wore Spurs
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Directed by Richard Whorf
Screenplay byRobert Libott
Frank Burt
Story by Robert Carson
Produced by Howard Welsch
Starring Ginger Rogers
Jack Carson
Cinematography J. Peverell Marley
Edited by Otto Ludwig
Music by Arthur Lange
Emil Newman
Production
company
Fidelity Pictures Corporation
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • March 14, 1951 (1951-03-14)(New York City)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Groom Wore Spurs is a 1951 American comedy film directed by Richard Whorf and starring Ginger Rogers and Jack Carson.

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Plot

Hollywood Singing cowboy Ben Castle (Jack Carson) hires lawyer "A.J." Furnival (Ginger Rogers) to get him out of his gambling debts that he incurred in Las Vegas to Harry Kallen Stanley Ridges. Kallan recognises A.J. as the daughter of a legendary attorney who helped him on several occasions. Castle seduces A.J. into a quick wedding with Kallan forgiving Castle his debts. A.J. discovers that Castle schemed the entire meeting and wedding with the intended result. Encouraged by her roommate Alice (Joan Davis) A.J. decides to get her revenge by living with him. She settles Castle's film contract, then discovers that he is a milquetoast who in real life in unable to ride a horse or sing. Gangsters decide to frame Castle with a murder.

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