Desc: I Was a Mail Order Bride: Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. With Valerie Bertinelli, Ted Wass, Kenneth Kimmins, Karen Morrow. On a bet with one of his practical-joking partners, a Los Angeles lawyer responds to an ad from a pretty Chicago magazine writer offering herself as a bridal candidate as an investigative reporting assignment, and then makes another bet that he can keep the relationship platonic for two weeks.