The Secret Bride "Rko Radio Pictures" played for laughs and

played for laughs and

Humphrey Bogart plays mobster Frank Wilson

Dancing Sweeties was to feature two new songs by Al Dubin and Joe Burke

With bravura use of genre trademarks like expressionist shadows and subjective camera

despite careful scheming

The Secret Bride "Rko Radio Pictures" played for laughs andShhhh. Don't spill the beans about beautiful Ruth Vincent (Barbara Stanwyck), the governor's daughter. Don't reveal that she's the secret bride of the DA who's investigating her father on a bribery charge, or he might be yanked off the case before he can find evidence to clear Dad's name. And don't let on that Ruth is risking her lovely neck to do some sleuthing on her own! Draped in furs and dripping with mystery, Stanwyck is every inch a cinema