This image is from the 1951 Frank Capra film Here Comes The Groom which stars Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman. In it, Crosby is American journalist Pete Garvey who has been based in Paris since the war, working with an orphanage there to find homes for war orphans. He is now returning to the States, but is reluctant to leave behind two orphans whom he's become attached to: Bobby and his little sister Suzi. He arranges to adopt them, but in order to do so, he has to be married. He's informed that, if he's not married within five days of returning to the U.S. with the children, the adoption will be void and Bobby and Suzi will have to return to France. Pete figures, no problem- he'll just marry Emmadel Jones, the girl he's been unofficially engaged to for years. To his shock and dismay, upon his return to Boston he finds that Emmadel has become tired of waiting for him and has agreed to marry Wilbur Stanley, a member of Boston's social elite. Pete immediately sets about scheming to win Emmadel back, and discovers that a distant cousin of Wilbur's- Winnifred- has been in love with him for years. Hoping to cause trouble in paradise, Pete offers to help her try to win Wilbur away from Emmadel. Shenanigans ensue while tempers flare and finally explode at the wedding rehearsal, resulting in a knock down, drag out fight between Emmadel and Winnifred.
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