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The Wedding Night |  | Director: King Vidor
Actors: Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Ralph Bellamy, Helen Vinson, Sig Ruman
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  17 reviews
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Published)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 83 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: M107538
UPC: 027616075369
EAN: 0027616075369
Theatrical Release Date: March 8, 1935
Release Date: May 22, 2007
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| • | In this Samuel Goldwyn production directed by King Vidor, the studio's intent was to make Russian-born Anna Sten a star, but it didn't succeed. Sten plays Manya Nowak, a Polish farm girl attracted to Tony Barrett (Gary Cooper), a novelist with writer's block who has retreated to a Connecticut farmhouse to find his muse. Barrett's wife Dora (Helen Vinson) misses the city and retu |
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Product Description
In this Samuel Goldwyn production directed by King Vidor the studio's intent was to make Russian-born Anna Sten a star but it didn't succeed.Sten plays Manya Nowak a Polish farm girl attracted to Tony Barrett (Gary Cooper) a novelist with writer's block who has retreated to a Connecticut farmhouse to find his muse. Barrett's wife Dora (Helen Vinson) misses the city and returns there while Tony decides to use Manya as a character in his next novel.They become friends and Tony learns that her straightlaced father Jan (Sigfried Rumann) has betrothed Manya to Fredrik Sobieski (Ralph Bellamy) whom she does not love. Manya and Tony spend a chaste night together when a blizzard shuts them in. Her father drags her home and demands that she marry Fredrik immediately. Many arguments and disagreements ensueFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 027616075369 Manufacturer No: M107538
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One of the lesser-known satisfactions in Gary Cooper's career is this 1935 King Vidor film, an offbeat blend of romance, comedy, and tragedy. It begins in screwball territory: Cooper plays a novelist whose partying ways have stalled his career and made his new manuscript unpublishable. He and wife Helen Vinson like the high life (any resemblance to Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald is probably intentional), and she doesn't stick around while he tries to write a new book in a quiet Connecticut country house. The isolation puts him into proximity with a heartfelt young immigrant girl (Anna Sten), whose Polish community provides a subject for his new book. If you think Cooper was a merely the High Noon guy, a lanky Western hero, this is one of the movies (among many) that dispel the idea: his utter naturalness is a gold standard for a certain kind of movie-star acting. Directing him on the set the first day, Vidor worried about the star's mumbling and forgetfulness with dialogue. "Imagine my amazement," Vidor later wrote, "when I watched our first day's work on the screen and observed and heard a performance that overflowed with charm and personality." Anna Sten was another issue: the Russian actress had been brought to the U.S. with great fanfare by producer Samuel Goldwyn, because he wanted to have his own foreign Garbo/Dietrich under contract. Her cool presence failed to generate audience interest, and Goldwyn gave up on her after The Wedding Night. She's a problem, but Cooper keeps it going, and the movie itself is unexpectedly warm. --Robert Horton
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 LOVED! July 6, 2009
Aimee Morales
I've always loved this movie.If you love classic movies of a wholesome nature this is the movie for all ages! Enjoy!
Low key comedy-drama about Platonic love April 6, 2009
M. Smith (Washington, NC)
Gary Cooper plays a New York author who has run out of both ideas and money. He and his wife (Helen Vinson) move to a disused family farm while he works on his next book. Polish immigrants have settled in the area, and one offers to buy several acres as a wedding gift for his soon to be married daughter (Anna Sten). Delighted, the wife heads back to New York with the cash, while the writer stays behind to work on a new book, inspired by what he sees in the Polish community.
A friendship soon blossoms between the Gary Cooper and Anna Sten characters. When he complains that he doesn't feel like writing, she reminds him that he is supposed to be a professional. "What would happen to my poor cow if I said I didn't feel like milking her?", she asks.
They develop a deep, sensitive relationship, but he is married and she is engaged to a loutish farmer (over) played by Ralph Bellamy. Neither is willing to take the first step toward a sexual relationship, though both seem willing to leave the door open for the other to do so.
Russian actress Anna Sten is wonderful in her part and it's puzzling why she never made it to Hollywood stardom. BTW: The Cole Porter song "Anything Goes" has a verse about Anna Sten.
The DVD image is clear and sharp, with good contrast.
 Gary Cooper does it again August 15, 2008
Dina Mattas (Victoria, Australia)
The Wedding Night
Another great movie from the legendary actor Gary Cooper, can this guy make a bad movie? A really pleasant way to pass the afternoon or evening.
What a gift July 29, 2008
music freak (clarksville.tn usa)
I got this for my niece for her wedding shower. She loves old movies and I thought what a perfect gift for her for her wedding shower gift. She really got a kick out of my sense of humor it being so creative in part of my gift to her and her new husband.
touching, bittersweet romantic drama March 19, 2008
Byron Kolln (the corner where Broadway meets Hollywood)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Gary Cooper delivers one of his most gentle, understated performances in THE WEDDING NIGHT (directed in 1935 by King Vidor, and based on a story by Edwin H. Knopf). He's perfectly paired with Anna Sten, the lovely Russian actress who never quite fulfilled her potential in Hollywood.
Struggling New York writer Tony Barrett (Gary Cooper) moves back to his family home in Connecticut. There, he becomes friends with a group of Polish emigrees, in particular Manya (Anna Sten). Quite soon, the friendship of Tony and Manya blossoms into a forbidden romance, until the re-appearance of Tony's wife (Helen Vinson) and the wedding plans set by Manya's tradition-bound family threaten to tear them apart...
For fans of Gary Cooper, THE WEDDING NIGHT will provide another side of the versatile actor, who managed to effortlessly shift between drama, comedy and western roles in his early career. Anna Sten is heartbreaking as Manya, a character which might well have become too sweet or sentimental in the hands of a lesser actress.
Russian-born Anna Sten was brought to Hollywood by producer Samuel Goldwyn, who attempted to groom her as a leading lady to rival the likes of Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. She made her American debut in 1934's "Nana"; THE WEDDING NIGHT is arguably the best film Sten appeared in during her relatively-brief Hollywood career. Precious few of her movies have surfaced on DVD (We Live Again and Exile Express are the only ones that I know of apart from THE WEDDING NIGHT).
It's wonderful having this superb movie on DVD. It's been released as part of the MGM Movie Legends series along with three more Gary Cooper favourites (The Adventures of Marco Polo, Ball of Fire, and Casanova Brown).
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