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The Wedding Night

  • 19351935
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 23m
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6.6/10
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Gary Cooper, Ralph Bellamy, and Anna Sten in The Wedding Night (1935)
DramaRomance
Because his finances are low and he is seeking background for a new book, author Tony Barratt and his wife Dora return to his country home in Connecticut. While he is finding material for hi... Read allBecause his finances are low and he is seeking background for a new book, author Tony Barratt and his wife Dora return to his country home in Connecticut. While he is finding material for his book on the lives and customs of the local immigrant tobacco farmers, his wife returns t... Read allBecause his finances are low and he is seeking background for a new book, author Tony Barratt and his wife Dora return to his country home in Connecticut. While he is finding material for his book on the lives and customs of the local immigrant tobacco farmers, his wife returns to New York and, alas, his Japanese servant deserts him. He meets neighboring farm girl Man... Read all
IMDb RATING
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1K
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    • King Vidor
    • Edwin H. Knopf(an original story by)
    • Edith Fitzgerald(screen play)
  • Stars
    • Gary Cooper
    • Anna Sten
    • Ralph Bellamy
    • King Vidor
    • Edwin H. Knopf(an original story by)
    • Edith Fitzgerald(screen play)
  • Stars
    • Gary Cooper
    • Anna Sten
    • Ralph Bellamy
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    • 28User reviews
    • 12Critic reviews
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    Gary Cooper and Anna Sten in The Wedding Night (1935)
    Gary Cooper and Anna Sten in The Wedding Night (1935)
    Gary Cooper and Anna Sten in The Wedding Night (1935)
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    Gary Cooper and Anna Sten in The Wedding Night (1935)
    Gary Cooper and Anna Sten in The Wedding Night (1935)
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    Gary Cooper, Ralph Bellamy, and Anna Sten in The Wedding Night (1935)
    Gary Cooper and Anna Sten in The Wedding Night (1935)
    Anna Sten in The Wedding Night (1935)
    Anna Sten in The Wedding Night (1935)
    Gary Cooper and Anna Sten in The Wedding Night (1935)

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    Gary Cooper
    Gary Cooper
    • Tony Barrett
    Anna Sten
    Anna Sten
    • Manya Novak
    Ralph Bellamy
    Ralph Bellamy
    • Fredrik Sobieski
    Helen Vinson
    Helen Vinson
    • Dora Barrett
    Sig Ruman
    Sig Ruman
    • Mr. Jan Novak
    • (as Siegfried Rumann)
    Esther Dale
    Esther Dale
    • Mrs. Kaise Novak
    Leonid Snegoff
    • Sobieski
    Eleanor Wesselhoeft
    • Mrs. Sobieski
    • (as Elinor Wesselhoeft)
    Milla Davenport
    • Grandmother
    Agnes Anderson
    Agnes Anderson
    • Helena
    Hilda Vaughn
    Hilda Vaughn
    • Hezzie Jones
    Walter Brennan
    Walter Brennan
    • Bill Jenkins
    Alphonse Martell
    Alphonse Martell
    • Waiter
    • (scenes deleted)
    Miami Alvarez
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Violet Axzelle
    • Frederica
    • (uncredited)
    Jay Belasco
    Jay Belasco
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Robert Bolder
    Robert Bolder
    • Doctor
    • (uncredited)
    Ed Eberle
    • Uncle
    • (uncredited)
      • King Vidor
      • Edwin H. Knopf(an original story by)
      • Edith Fitzgerald(screen play)
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    • Trivia
      Gary Cooper hated his co-star, Anna Sten, so much that behind her back he would refer to her as "Anna Stench."
    • Goofs
      Near the end, Fredrik runs to confront Tony, with Manya following behind him, yet she arrives to meet Tony several seconds before Fredrik appears.
    • Quotes

      Mr. Jan Novak: Well, I don't know how you walk, but you fall pretty good!

    • Connections
      Featured in Legends of World Cinema: Anna Sten
    • Soundtracks
      Shall We Gather At The River
      (1864) (uncredited)

      Written by Robert Lowry

      Sung a cappella by Hilda Vaughn

    User reviews28

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    A great film
    Yesterday I re-watched "The Wedding Night" (1935), this time with my wife who had never seen it before. For me it was like watching it all over again for the first time. I think that this happens with great pictures, like this one. She also loved the film and I felt so gratified by that, because sadly this type of quiet, sensitive films is not the kind of film which you can watch with anybody and can be fully appreciated as it should be.

    I'm a fan of "the Gary Cooper" of the late '20s and 1930s, in my opinion some his best films were made around this time, before his definitive screen persona was established, especially in the early thirties. He gives a sensitive, balanced, nuanced, performance in a film that looks like a slice of life. His character is so unarchetypical, so honestly portrayed by him, that you get immersed totally in this beautiful love story. And this is no by chance, because the film was directed by the masterful King Vidor.

    Praise must also go to the two actresses that vividly portray the two women in Cooper's life: the unjustly forgotten and underrated Russian actress Anna Sten and the equally unfairly forgotten actress Helen Vinson. Miss Vinson portrays without falling in the caricature, a shallow, but at the same time likable society woman, who thinks that life is a never-ending party and does not take marriage as seriously as it should be taken, realizing it too late. Miss Sten plays the naïve but strong-willed Polish woman who reluctantly at first, begins to fall for the writer portrayed by Cooper. The scene in which Cooper reads to her the first chapters of the new (autobiographical) book he is writing, is most telling in this aspect; because Miss Sten does not fall for the dashing, tall, handsome Cooper, but for his character's sensitiveness, feelings and emotions which she apprehends by means of this book in progress.

    In short, none of the three principals of this story incur in stereotypical portrayals, which helped me to connect with their characters' emotions, with its virtues and flaws.

    A wonderful experience, which with no doubt I'll repeat in the future, because this film deserves many viewings and is just my kind of film; a simple love story, unpretentiously directed, that does not aim at over sentimentality and does not fall into the maudlin which can ruin a movie, with superb, unaffected performances by the leads.
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    • Dec 19, 2007

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    • Release date
      • March 8, 1935 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
      • Polish
    • Also known as
      • Samuel Goldwyn Studios - 7200 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, California, USA
    • Production company
      • The Samuel Goldwyn Company
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    • 1 hour 23 minutes
      • Black and White

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