Films to Travel Down Bridal Path

Brides provide the running theme through four very different films screening this month at the Fullerton Museum Center.

* “Bride of Frankenstein” plays Friday. The 1935 sequel to “Frankenstein” stars Boris Karloff as the famous monster and Elsa Lanchester as his made-to-order bride.

* “June Bride,” a 1948 film starring Bette Davis and Robert Montgomery, will be shown Aug. 9. As is wont to happen in romantic comedies, the two leads (this time, bickering reporters sent to cover a small-town wedding) fall in love despite themselves.

* “Love and Kisses,” a cinematic visit with the Nelson family, screens Aug. 16. Rick decides to take a bride (played by his real-life wife, Kristin Nelson), and the high jinks begin. Ozzie directed, and Huntington Beach City Councilman Jack Kelly is one of the co-stars.

* “Love Parade,” an early musical directed by Ernst Lubitsch, will be shown Aug. 23. In the 1929 movie, Maurice Chevalier meets and marries Jeanette MacDonald, ruler of a land where women have the upper hand.

The series relates to two exhibits about weddings at the center: “Something Old, Something New: Ethnic Weddings in America” and “I Do! I Do!: Wedding Fashions from 1820 to 1920.” All films will be screened at 8 p.m. at the museum center, 301 N. Pomona Ave. Tickets: $4 at the door. Information: (714) 738-6545.