There is a funny English film, but sad and compassionate at the same time, about some English mis-fits who go to the Philippines to see the women that they have contacted through a bride-finding service. I believe it is called "Filipino Baby."
It may not sound like it, but the film is excellent and I recommend this film to everyone, if they can find it on VHS or in the TV movies. It was made some years ago.

In the west, we always heard about mail-order brides. I expected that it would be easy to find stories or possibly songs on the American Memory- Library of Congress site, but there seems to be nothing worthwhile.
A little checking made me realize that single men out west didn't really find their brides that way. Usually they were found through correspondence with relatives at home. Then there were the women who came west as biscuit-shooters, laundry proprietors, etc. Finally there were those who came as dance-hall girls and prostitutes. Oh yes, school teachers. And most importantly, the daughters of the merchants and entrepreneurs who came west with their families.

The womanless west was largely fiction and didn't last very long.