Wings of the Morning (1937 film)

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| name = Wings of the Morning

| image = File:Wings of the Morning (1937 film).jpg

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| director = Harold D. Schuster
Glenn Tyron (original director)

| producer = Robert Kane

| based_on = {{based on|Destiny Bay
1928 two short stories|Donn Byrne}}

| writer = Tom Geraghty (narration)
Gilbert Wakefield (scenario)

| screenplay = Thomas J. Geraghty
John Meehan

| story = Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne

| starring = Annabella
Henry Fonda
Leslie Banks

| music = Arthur Benjamin
Muir Mathieson

| cinematography = Ray Rennahan

| editing = James B. Clark

| studio = New World Pictures

| distributor = 20th Century Fox

| released = {{Film date|1937|01||UK|1937|03|11|US|df=y}}

| runtime = 89 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| budget = $850,000{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WIZwZOz8LHsC&q=aubrey+solomon+20th+century+fox&pg=PA212|title=Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History|first=Aubrey|last=Solomon|date=25 April 2002|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780810842441|via=Google Books}} or £150,000{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244660724 |title=Costly British Films For Melbourne |newspaper=The Herald |location=Victoria, Australia |date=10 December 1936 |access-date=13 May 2020 |page=44 |via=Trove }}

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Wings of the Morning is a 1937 British drama film directed by Harold D. Schuster and starring Annabella, Henry Fonda, and Leslie Banks. Glenn Tryon was the original director but he was fired and replaced by Schuster. It was the first ever three-strip Technicolor movie shot in England or Europe. Jack Cardiff is credited as the camera operator.{{cite book |last1=Slide |first1=Anthony |author1-link=Anthony Slide |title=Fifty Classic British Films, 1932-1982: A Pictorial Record |date=1985 |publisher=Dover Publications, Inc. |location=New York |isbn=0-486-24860-7 |page=22 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zu1zw2ugvTsC&pg=PA22 |lccn=84-21230 |chapter=Wings of the Morning |via=Google Books}}

Popular Irish tenor Count John McCormack appeared in the film singing "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" and "Killarney". The picture was French actress Annabella's first English language film. Henry Fonda met his second wife, Frances Ford Seymour, mother of Jane and Peter Fonda, on the set at Denham.Christopher Andersen (1990) Citizen Jane