''The Wedding Song'' is a 1925 American
silent drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Alan Hale and starring
Leatrice Joy
Leatrice Joy (born Leatrice Johanna Zeidler; November 7, 1893 – May 13, 1985) was an American actress most prolific during the silent film era.
Early life
Joy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to dentist Edward Joseph Zeidler, who was o ...
,
Robert Ames, and
Charles K. Gerrard. It is based upon the novel of the same name by
Ethel Watts Mumford.
Plot
As described in a film magazine review, a young
pearl
A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is composed of calcium carb ...
fisher leaves his native island for the first time to go to
San Francisco and dispose of the fortune in
South Sea pearls he has gathered. On the steamer bound to San Francisco he meets and falls in love with a woman who is a member of a band of crooks who pose as her relatives. The pearler marries her, but she and her confederates are after the pearls. Following a series of adventures in which the woman is wounded with a gun, she learns that she really loves her husband. She warns him of a plot against his life in time to save him and they are reunited.
Cast
Preservation
A complete print of ''The Wedding Song'' is held in the
UCLA Film and Television Archive
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is a visual arts organization focused on the preservation, study, and appreciation of film and television, based at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Also a nonprofit exhibition venue, the ar ...
.
Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''The Wedding Song''
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References
Bibliography
* Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
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at silentfilmstillarchive.com
1925 films
1925 drama films
Silent American drama films
Films directed by Alan Hale
American silent feature films
1920s English-language films
American black-and-white films
Producers Distributing Corporation films
Films set in San Francisco
1920s American films
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