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* InnocentCohabitation: Due to not consummating their marriage, both Jim and Joan end up more like roommates than husband and wife.
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* DeterminedHomesteadersWife: A city girl turns into a country girl and manages to keep her head up by being fiercely determined to win Jim's affection and be a good farmer.

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* DeterminedHomesteadersWife: DeterminedHomesteader: A city girl turns into a country girl and manages to keep her head up by being fiercely determined to win Jim's affection and be a good farmer.
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''The Purchase Price'' (1932) is a [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] drama film directed by Creator/WilliamAWellman, starring Creator/BarbaraStanwyck and George Brent.

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''The Purchase Price'' (1932) is a [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] drama film directed by Creator/WilliamAWellman, starring Creator/BarbaraStanwyck and George Brent.
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''The Purchase Price'' (1932) is a [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] film directed by Creator/WilliamAWellman, starring Creator/BarbaraStanwyck and George Brent.

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''The Purchase Price'' (1932) is a [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] drama film directed by Creator/WilliamAWellman, starring Creator/BarbaraStanwyck and George Brent.
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''The Purchase Price'' (1932) is a [[ThePreCodeEra pre-code]] film directed by Creator/WilliamAWellman and starring Creator/BarbaraStanwyck and George Brent.

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''The Purchase Price'' (1932) is a [[ThePreCodeEra pre-code]] [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] film directed by Creator/WilliamAWellman and Creator/WilliamAWellman, starring Creator/BarbaraStanwyck and George Brent.
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* LoveConfession: Even after many confessions of her love, Jim still won’t cave and consummate their marriage.

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* LoveConfession: Averted with Jim. Even after many confessions of her love, Jim still won’t cave and consummate their marriage.



* MailOrderBride: Joan becomes one when she founds out that her gangster ex-boyfriend has found her in Montreal, and her spinster housemaid sent Joan’s picture instead of hers for the mail-order service.

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* MailOrderBride: Joan becomes one when she founds out that her gangster ex-boyfriend has found her hiding in Montreal, and her spinster housemaid sent Joan’s picture instead of hers for to the mail-order service.
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* MarriageBeforeRomance: The Jim and Joan’s relationship begins.

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* MarriageBeforeRomance: The How Jim and Joan’s relationship begins.
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* SexlessMarriage: The Gordons' marriage gets off on the wrong foot because Joan is uncomfortable having sex with a man she barely knows. Jim, then, stays away from her after the incident (wherein he forced himself on her, but Joan rejected him soundly) and keeps his distance.

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* SexlessMarriage: The Gordons' marriage gets off on the wrong foot because Joan is uncomfortable having sex with a man she barely knows. Jim, then, stays away from her after the incident (wherein (where he forced himself on her, but Joan rejected him soundly) and keeps his distance.
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Joan (Stanwyck) is a [[TheChanteuse torch singer]] who wants to get away from her gangster ex-boyfriend. She finds her opportunity by becoming a mail-order bride for a man, Jim Gordon (Brent), in North Dakota. However, Jim and Joan get off on the wrong foot and subsequently have a cold relationship. Joan tries to adjust to the country life and try to make Jim realize that she loves him.

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Joan (Stanwyck) is a [[TheChanteuse torch singer]] who wants to get away from her gangster ex-boyfriend. She finds her opportunity by becoming a mail-order bride for a man, Jim Gordon (Brent), in North Dakota. However, Jim and Joan get off on the wrong foot and subsequently have a cold relationship. Joan tries to adjust to the country life and try to make Jim realize that she loves him.capture Jim's heart.



* ActOfTrueLove: Saving the wheat from the fire was enough for Jim to realize that Joan really does care.
* TheChanteuse: Joan’s line of work.
* DeterminedHomesteadersWife: A city girl turn into a country girl and manages to keep her head up by being fiercely determined to win Jim's affection and be a good farmer.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: Trying to entice Jim, Joan sets out her lingerie to get him into her room, but he closes the door much to her chagrin.
* InnocentCohabitation: Due to not consummating their marriage, both Jim and Joan end up more roommates than husband and wife.
* LastMinuteHookup: After helping put out the flames of their wheat (they spent painstaking hours sowing the seeds and taking care of the wheat),

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* ActOfTrueLove: Saving the wheat from the fire was enough for Jim to realize that Joan really does care.
love him.
* TheChanteuse: Joan’s line of work.work which is too risque for her playboy boyfriend's family.
* DeterminedHomesteadersWife: A city girl turns into a country girl and manages to keep her head up by being fiercely determined to win Jim's affection and be a good farmer.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: Trying to entice Jim, Joan sets out her lingerie in his line of sight to get him into her room, but he closes the door, much to her chagrin.

* DeterminedHomesteadersWife: A city girl turn into a country girl and manages to keep her head up by being fiercely determined to win Jim's affection and be a good farmer.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: Trying to entice Jim, Joan sets out her lingerie to get him into her room, but he closes the door much to her chagrin.
* InnocentCohabitation: Due to not consummating their marriage, both Jim and Joan end up more like roommates than husband and wife.
* LastMinuteHookup: After helping put out the flames of destroying their wheat (they (which they spent painstaking hours sowing the seeds on), Jim picks Joan up in a romance novel way and taking care of the wheat), they're off to consummate their marriage.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The awkward rejection.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:The awkward rejection.]]
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!!The Purchase Price shows the following tropes:

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!!The !!''The Purchase Price Price'' shows the following tropes:
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[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]][[caption-width-right:350:The awkward rejection.]]
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* DeterminedHomesteadersWife: A city girl turn into a country girl and manages to keep her head up.

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* DeterminedHomesteadersWife: A city girl turn into a country girl and manages to keep her head up.up by being fiercely determined to win Jim's affection and be a good farmer.

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The Purchase Price (1932) is a [[ThePreCodeEra pre-code]] film directed by Creator/WilliamAWellman and starring Creator/BarbaraStanwyck and George Brent.

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Purchase Price Price'' (1932) is a [[ThePreCodeEra pre-code]] film directed by Creator/WilliamAWellman and starring Creator/BarbaraStanwyck and George Brent.



* SexlessMarriage: The Gordons’ marriage gets off on the wrong foot because Joan is uncomfortable having sex with a man she barely knows. Jim, then, stays away from her after the incident (wherein he forced himself on her, but Joan rejected him soundly) and keeps his distance.

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* SexlessMarriage: The Gordons’ Gordons' marriage gets off on the wrong foot because Joan is uncomfortable having sex with a man she barely knows. Jim, then, stays away from her after the incident (wherein he forced himself on her, but Joan rejected him soundly) and keeps his distance.
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The Purchase Price (1932) is a [[ThePreCodeEra pre-code]] film directed by Creator/WilliamAWellman and starring Creator/BarbaraStanwyck and George Brent.

Joan (Stanwyck) is a [[TheChanteuse torch singer]] who wants to get away from her gangster ex-boyfriend. She finds her opportunity by becoming a mail-order bride for a man, Jim Gordon (Brent), in North Dakota. However, Jim and Joan get off on the wrong foot and subsequently have a cold relationship. Joan tries to adjust to the country life and try to make Jim realize that she loves him.
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!!The Purchase Price shows the following tropes:
*ActOfTrueLove: Saving the wheat from the fire was enough for Jim to realize that Joan really does care.
*TheChanteuse: Joan’s line of work.
*DeterminedHomesteadersWife: A city girl turn into a country girl and manages to keep her head up.
*IgnoreTheFanservice: Trying to entice Jim, Joan sets out her lingerie to get him into her room, but he closes the door much to her chagrin.
*InnocentCohabitation: Due to not consummating their marriage, both Jim and Joan end up more roommates than husband and wife.
*LastMinuteHookup: After helping put out the flames of their wheat (they spent painstaking hours sowing the seeds and taking care of the wheat),
*LoveConfession: Even after many confessions of her love, Jim still won’t cave and consummate their marriage.
*LingerieScene: In the aforementioned IgnoreTheFanservice scene, Joan gets to frolic in her lingerie.
*MailOrderBride: Joan becomes one when she founds out that her gangster ex-boyfriend has found her in Montreal, and her spinster housemaid sent Joan’s picture instead of hers for the mail-order service.
*MarriageBeforeRomance: The Jim and Joan’s relationship begins.
*ParentalMarriageVeto: Joan was engaged to a well-to-do playboy but his parents objected to their marriage, so he dumped Joan.
*SexlessMarriage: The Gordons’ marriage gets off on the wrong foot because Joan is uncomfortable having sex with a man she barely knows. Jim, then, stays away from her after the incident (wherein he forced himself on her, but Joan rejected him soundly) and keeps his distance.
*VideoCredits: Early Warner Bros. films usually begin this way.
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