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The Bride Came C.O.D. is a 1941 romantic comedy starring James Cagney as a pilot and Bette Davis as a runaway heiress. Although the film was publicized as the first movie together of Warner Bros.' two biggest stars, they had actually made Jimmy the Gent in 1934.

The movie was written by Kenneth Earl, M.M. Musselman, and twins Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein, and directed by William Keighley.

Pilot Steve Collins (James Cagney) agrees to help bandleader Alan Brice (Jack Carson) and heiress Joan Winfield (Bette Davis) elope. Steve then contacts her father Lucius (Eugene Pallette), offering to stop the marriage and deliver her to him for enough of a reward to get out of debt.

Collins gets Alan to debark, then takes off with Joan. An irate Joan forces the plane to land in the ghost town of Bonanza, where they encounter the lone resident, Pop Tolliver (Harry Davenport). Joan escapes into an abandoned mine. When Steve follows her, they are trapped by a cave-in. Steve finds a way out, but hides it from Joan on the advice of Pop. By the time Joan finds out, Steve has admitted that he is in love with her. They exit the cave to find that Alan has tracked them down, accompanied by a Nevada judge.

Steve does not object when Alan and Joan get married, hiding the fact that Bonanza is in California and therefore the wedding is invalid. The "newlyweds" board another plane, but when Joan figures out that they are not really married, she parachutes out to be reunited with Steve.

• James Cagney as Steve Collins
• Bette Davis as Joan Winfield
• Stuart Erwin as Tommy Keenan
• Eugene Pallette as Lucius K. Winfield
• Jack Carson as Alan Brice
• George Tobias as Peewee Dafoe
• William Frawley as Sheriff McGee
• Harry Davenport as Pop Tolliver

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