Bette Davis

Bette Davis seen here knitting on the set of William Keighley's American screwball romantic comedy 'The Bride Came C.O.D.' (1941). The movie is an American screwball romantic comedy starring James Cagney as an airplane pilot and Bette Davis as a runaway heiress. Although the film was publicized as the first screen pairing of Warner Bros.' two biggest stars, they had actually made 'Jimmy the Gent' together in 1934, and had wanted to find another opportunity to work together. The screenplay was written by Kenneth Earl, M. M. Musselman, and twins Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein. The basic plot owes much to Frank Capra's Pre-Code American romantic comedy 'It Happened One Night' (1934), starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, in which an heiress seeks to marry a playboy of whom her father disapproves, only to end up with a charming working man. This movie, 'The Bride Came C.O.D.' featured, in supporting roles, Canadian actor Jack Carson, and American actors Stuart Irwin, Eugene Pallette, George Tobias, later famous as "Abner Kravitz" on the television programme 'Bewitched', William Frawley, later famous as "Fred Mertz" on the television programme 'I Love Lucy', Harry Davenport, who played Dr. Meade in 'Gone With The Wind' (1939), and a young William Hopper, the son of actor DeWolf Hopper and infamous actress and Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, who would later become famous as the private investigator "Paul Drake" on the television programme 'Perry Mason'. I wonder if Vincent Price on the Universal Pictures set for 'The House of the Seven Gables' sent this raven in the photograph over to visit Bette Davis on the Warner Brothers set.