The Wedding Night

"TONIGHT She'd leave the man she LOVED with all her SOUL...to MARRY the man she despised!"

Mar 8 1935 Passed 1h 23m
Drama, Romance

While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik (Bellamy). Due to a snowstorm, Tony and Manya are trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.

Plot

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 a theme 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 a neighboring farm girl, Manya Novak, and hires her to cook his meals and clean his house. They soon fall in love. But, following the customs of the old country, her father has entered a 'marriage bargain' for her to wed a man, Fredrik Sobieski, not of her choosing.

Written by

Edwin H. Knopf, Edith Fitzgerald

Directed by

King Vidor

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Howard Productions

Languages

English, Polski

Awards

1 win & 1 nomination

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