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...most interesting member of the Nowak family is young Manya (Anna Sten), who presently becomes not only the heroine of Tony Barrett's book but also its inspiration. By the time Dora Barrett comes back, Tony is ready to ask for a divorce but by this time Manya, convinced that her attachment for Tony has reached an impasse, has married the loutish young Pole (Ralph Bellamy) to whom her father has promised her. The situation explodes suddenly on their wedding night. Enraged when he finds Manya weeping and reluctant, her drunken bridegroom rushes out to kill...
Because the cinema has so frequently used inapposite happy endings for purely commercial reasons, there is a tendency to regard as artistically courageous any film in which the heroine breaks her neck. Also, since Anna Sten has been introduced to the U. S. public as a glamorous composite of Greta Garbo and Mae West, a picture in which her physical charms are concealed by a mackinaw and a woolen stocking-cap obviously constitutes a daring innovation. The merits of The Wedding Night are more substantial than criticisms which dwell on these superficial factors may lead cinemaddicts to suppose. A sober...
Plucked from the aromatic ceremony of a Russian Easter to grace the tobacco fields of Connecticut, Anna Sten intrudes pleasingly upon the American scene in her latest picture, "The Wedding Night." The Slavonic accent, a charming one, is both preserved and accounted for by the fact that she is cast as the daughter of a toiling family of Polish immigrant farmers. It is a family which knows not the lilies of the field...
...selling the glebe lands thereof to an enterprising Polish neighbor, Cooper is rather shocked to find that they are to form part of the dowry which will place Manya (Anna Sten) forever in the boorishly legitimate embraces of Patigorski, a young Pole of the vicinage. He allows his wife to return to the giddy whirl alone, and remains to watch Manya trip across the hill each morning with the milk. Winter comes...
...LIVE AGAIN--Despite the fact that Tolstoy's Resurrection has been filmed twice before in the U. S., it took Producer Samuel Goldwyn to set his hand to producing a near-accurate interpretation of the social message contained in the book. He chose Anna Sten, Fredric March and Director Rouben Mamoulian to make this one of the best pictures of the season--and they fulfilled all expectations...