The Wedding Night
6.6
“TONIGHT She'd leave the man she LOVED with all her SOUL...to MARRY the man she despised!”
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett develops romantic feelings for Manya Novak, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik Sobieski. After a snowstorm, Tony and Manya get trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists that her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
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Cast
31 people
Gary Cooper
Tony Barrett
Known for
High Noon
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Anna Sten
Manya Novak
Also in
The Girl with the Hat Box
The Yellow Ticket
Ralph Bellamy
Fredrik Sobieski
Known for
Pretty Woman
Trading Places
Helen Vinson
Dora Barrett
Known for
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
The Thin Man Goes Home
Sig Ruman
Mr. Jan Novak
Known for
To Be or Not to Be
Ninotchka
Esther Dale
Mrs. Kaise Novak
Known for
The Awful Truth
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Leonid Snegoff
Sobieski
Known for
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Eleanor Wesselhoeft
Mrs. Sobieski
Known for
The Prisoner of Zenda
Milla Davenport
Grandmother
Also in
Daddy-Long-Legs
Crazy Like a Fox
Walter Brennan
Bill Jenkins
Known for
Rio Bravo
To Have and Have Not
Agnes Anderson
Helena
Also in
The Shadow Strikes
The Plot Thickens
Hilda Vaughn
Hezzie Jones
Known for
Dinner at Eight
King Vidor Director · Edith Fitzgerald Screenplay Edwin H. Knopf Story
Worldwide gross $174K · United States release March 8, 1935 · Produced in United States
Box office
Worldwide gross
$174,081
Production
Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Production
Howard Productions
Production
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Studio · Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Polish
Release dates
United States · March 8, 1935
Theatrical
France
May 3, 1935 · Theatrical
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