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

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

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