The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) on Netflix
Steve Collins owes a finance company $1,112.77 by midnight or loses his charter plane. Lucius K. Winfield pays him to stop his daughter Joan from eloping with bandleader Alan Brice.
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A publicity-hungry broadcaster talks up the elopement of Joan Winfield, whose father Lucius K. Winfield is a Texas oil tycoon, with bandleader Alan Brice, four days into their courtship. Winfield hears the news on the radio and phones the airport, calling Alan a fortune-hunter. Steve Collins, who runs a small charter service and owes a finance company $1,112.77 due by midnight, calls Winfield back with an offer: deliver Joan to Amarillo unmarried, freight charge ten dollars a pound, cash on delivery. Steve gets Alan and the broadcaster off his plane and takes off with Joan. When she tries to jump, he spots that her parachute is unfastened and on backwards, swerves wildly, and sets the aircraft down near Bonanza, a ghost town sixty miles from anywhere.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
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- Bette Davis jumped out of the aircraft herself instead of letting a stunt double do it, missed and fell into a cactus, and needed 45 quills pulled out of her rear; the mishap stayed in the finished film.
- Bette Davis was not the first pick for heiress Joan Winfield: Ann Sheridan, Ginger Rogers and Rosalind Russell were considered, and the role was earmarked for Olivia de Havilland, until Hal Wallis backed Davis for the part.
- A year after the film came out, animator Chuck Jones spoofed it in the Warner Bros. Conrad Cat cartoon "The Bird Came C.O.D."
