ANNA STEN BECOMES AMERICAN GIRL

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 46, 24 May 1935, Page 23

ANNA STEN BECOMES AMERICAN GIRL

a Starred With Gary Cooper in "The Wedding Night" TPALL Gary Cooper and blonde Anna Sten are paired for the first time as a new romantic team in "The Wedding Night," which starts its New Zealand season at the Regent Theatre, Auckland. on Friday. It is 2 Samuel

Goldwyn production, directed by King Vidor, and features Ralph Bellamy, Helen Vinson and Siegfriéd Rumann. "The Wedding Night" is a dramatic romance in which Miss Sten portrays a modern American girl rebelling against the dictates and restraints of tradition, and Gary Cooper appears as a suecessful, sophisticated New York author with whom she falls jn love. Miss Sten’s part is in sharp contrast to her previous performances in "Nana" and "We Live Again." In the first, she was an exotic, langorous Woman of Paris, and in the second a simple peasant of Russia. In "The. Wedding Night she emerges thoroughly American in dress, talk and actions, The film marks another milestone in the career of Cooper, Nine years ago. Goldwyn gave the tall, broad-shoulder-ed young cowboy his first important part in a motion picture, the role of Abe Lee in "The Wininng of Barbara Worth," and it was the beginning of Cooper’s Jong string of successes. His salary then was about £15 a week; it wag rumoured to be about 100 times that in "The Wedding Night." Wdwin _ Knopf wrote the original story of "The Wedding Night," and Edith Fitzgerald made the screen adaptation. Omar ’ Kiam designed the costumes, Richard Day designed the sets and Alftved Newman was musica] director, ‘The film is released through United Artists,