The Wedding Song (1925 film)
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{{Infobox film
| name = The Wedding Song
| image = The Wedding Song (1925) - 1.jpg
| caption =
| director = Alan Hale
| producer = Cecil B. DeMille
| writer = Douglas Z. Doty
George Marion Jr.
Charles E. Whittaker
| based_on = {{basedon|The Wedding Song|Ethel Watts Mumford}}
| starring = Leatrice Joy
Robert Ames
Charles K. Gerrard
| music =
| editing =
| cinematography =
| studio = Cinema Corporation of America
| distributor = Producers Distributing Corporation
| released = {{Film date|1925|11|29}}
| runtime = 70 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
The Wedding Song is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Alan Hale and starring Leatrice Joy, Robert Ames, and Charles K. Gerrard.Munden p. 871 It is based upon the novel of the same name by Ethel Watts Mumford.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/W/WeddingSong1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: The Wedding Song] at silentera.com
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{Citation |title=New Pictures: The Wedding Song |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=23 |issue=6 |pages=57 |date=31 October 1925 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=Chicago, Illinois |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald22unse/page/654/mode/1up |access-date=1 November 2022}} {{Source-attribution}} a young pearl fisher leaves his native island for the first time to go to San Francisco and dispose of the fortune in South Sea pearls he has gathered. On the steamer bound to San Francisco he meets and falls in love with a woman who is a member of a band of crooks who pose as her relatives. The pearler marries her, but she and her confederates are after the pearls. Following a series of adventures in which the woman is wounded with a gun, she learns that she really loves her husband. She warns him of a plot against his life in time to save him and they are reunited.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Leatrice Joy as Beatrice Glynn
- Robert Ames as Hayes Hallan
- Charles K. Gerrard as Paul Glynn
- Ruby Lafayette as Mother
- Rosa Rudami as Ethea
- Jack Curtis as George Pappadoulos
- Clarence Burton as Capt. Saltus
- Gertrude Claire as Grandma
- Ethel Wales as Auntie
- Gladden James as Jeffrey King
- Casson Ferguson as Madison Melliah
- Mai Wells as Old Woman (uncredited)
}}
Preservation
A complete print of The Wedding Song is held in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3221/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Wedding Song]
References
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Bibliography
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
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- {{IMDb title|0016509}}
- [http://www.silentfilmstillarchive.com/wedding.htm Still] at silentfilmstillarchive.com
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Category:Silent American drama films
Category:Films directed by Alan Hale Sr.
Category:American silent feature films
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Producers Distributing Corporation films
Category:Films set in San Francisco
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