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Weddings Are Wonderful

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Weddings Are Wonderful
Directed byMaclean Rogers
Written byDouglas Hoare (play)
Sydney Blow (play)
Kathleen Butler
H.F. Maltby
Produced byGeorge Smith
StarringJune Clyde
Esmond Knight
René Ray
CinematographyGeoffrey Faithfull
Edited byDaniel Birt
Music byHarris Weston
Production
company
Canterbury Films
Distributed byRKO Pictures
Release date
21 September 1938
Running time
79 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Weddings Are Wonderful is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring June Clyde, Esmond Knight and René Ray. It was made at Walton Studios.[1]

Synopsis

When she discovers that he has been cut off by his father without a penny, the gold-digging singer Cora Sutherland abandons her fiancée Guy Rogers. However the same night he meets and falls in love with a young woman, Betty Leadbetter, who has taken shelter in his flat after escaping from a raid on a gambling club. Guy must persuade her strait-laced mother to allow them to marry while trying to fend off Cora who has heard about the relationship and sports an opportunity for blackmail.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Wood p.99

Bibliography

  • Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.