Wonder of Women

Wonder of Women
Directed by	Clarence Brown
Written by	Marian Ainslee (titles) Bess Meredyth (Writer) Hermann Sudermann (Novel)
Starring	Lewis Stone Leila Hyams Peggy Wood
Cinematography	Merritt B. Gerstad
Edited by	William LeVanway
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	July 13, 1929 (1929-07-13)
Running time	95 Minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Sound (Part-Talkie) English Intertitles

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.^[1][2]

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.^[3]

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

• List of rediscovered films
• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

References

1. "The 2nd Academy Awards (1930) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved January 15, 2014.
2. "NY Times: Wonder of Women". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2016. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
3. American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Wonder of Woman

External links

• Wonder of Women at IMDb
• Wonder of Women at the TCM Movie Database