Wonder of Women
{{short description|1929 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Wonder of Women
| image = File:Wonder of Women.jpg
| director = Clarence Brown
| producer =
| writer = Marian Ainslee (titles)
Bess Meredyth (Writer)
Hermann Sudermann (Novel)
| starring = Lewis Stone
Leila Hyams
Peggy Wood
| music =
| cinematography = Merritt B. Gerstad
| editing = William LeVanway
| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
| released = {{Film date|1929|7|13}}
| runtime = 95 Minutes
| language = Sound (Part-Talkie)
English Intertitles
| country = United States}}
Wonder of Women is a 1929 American sound part-talkie pre-Code drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams, and Peggy Wood. While the film has a few talking sequences, the majority of the film features a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. It was nominated for Best Writing at the 2nd Academy Awards.{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1930|title=The 2nd Academy Awards (1930) Nominees and Winners|access-date=January 15, 2014|work=oscars.org}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/117679/Wonder-of-Women/awards|title=NY Times: Wonder of Women|access-date=March 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306205324/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/117679/Wonder-of-Women/awards|archive-date=March 6, 2016|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2016|url-status=dead}}
Based on the 1927 German novel Die Frau des Steffen Tromholt by Hermann Sudermann, the film is now lost with only sound discs surviving at UCLA.[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10825/default.html American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Wonder of Woman]
Cast
- Lewis Stone as Stephen Trombolt
- Leila Hyams as Karen
- Peggy Wood as Brigitte
- Harry Myers as Bruno Heim
- Sarah Padden as Anna
- George Fawcett as Doctor
- Blanche Friderici as Stephen Trombolt's housekeeper (as Blanche Frederici)
- Wally Albright as Wulle-Wulle (as Wally Albright Jr.)
- Anita Louise as Lottie (as Anita Fremault)
- Ullrich Haupt as Kurt
Music
The film contains two theme songs. The first is entitled "At Close Of Day" with words and music by Fred Fisher and Martin Broones. The second theme song is entitled "Ich Liebe Dich (I Love You)" with words and music by Raymond Klages, Jesse Greer and Martin Broones.
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0020603}}
- {{TCMDb title|96240}}
{{Clarence Brown}}
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Category:1920s English-language films
Category:1920s rediscovered films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films about pianos and pianists
Category:Films based on German novels
Category:Films based on works by Hermann Sudermann
Category:Films directed by Clarence Brown
Category:Films with screenplays by Bess Meredyth
Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Category:Rediscovered American films
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