Wedding Rehearsal (1932)

Young man fights off attempts to marry him off to a series of available girls. Intersting glimpses of London in 1930.

Director:

Alexander Korda

Writers:

Lajos Biró (story), George Grossmith (story),

Stars:

Roland Young, George Grossmith, John Loder

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Roland Young	...	Reggie Buckley Candysshe - Marquis of Buckminster
George Grossmith	...	Birdie Wroxbury - Earl of Stokeshire
John Loder	...	John Hopkins aka Bimbo
Wendy Barrie	...	Lady Mary Rose Wroxbury
Joan Gardner	...	Lady Rose Mary Wroxbury
Merle Oberon	...	Miss Hutchinson
Lady Tree	...	Mrs. Susan Roxbury - Countess of Stokeshire
Kate Cutler	...	Dowager Marchioness of Buckminster
Maurice Evans	...	George Thompson aka Tootles
Morton Selten	...	Major Harry Wroxbury
Edmund Breon	...	Lord Fleet
Laurence Hanray	...	News editor
Diana Napier	...	Mrs. Dryden
Rodolfo Mele	...	The cabaret singer

Storyline

Reggie, the impish Marquis of Buckminster, has many friends and is happy with his present bachelor lifestyle. But his grandmother demands that he now get married to one of a few suitable women that she names, and have some children. Two of the women are twin sisters who are friends of his from another aristocratic family, so he visits them, and learns that they already have fiancés but commoners, against their family's wishes. If he can help them to marry the men they want, it will also shorten the list of candidates and maybe help him remain single so Reggie does everything he can to help them.

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Plot Keywords:

london england

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 January 1933 (UK)

Also Known As:

Sposatevi ragazzi!

Filming Locations:

ASFI Studios, Wembley Park, Wembley, London, England, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

London Film Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

84 min 79 min (TCM print)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Earl of Stokeshire: You understand me, Susan? You must tell the girls, I won't have it!
Countess of Stokeshire: Yes, dear, I'll tell them. But, you know, they really never take any notice of what you say...
Earl of Stokeshire: I know nothing of the sort! As their father and the head of this household, I respectfully submit that -
Countess of Stokeshire: [interrupting] That's what I say, you have to.
Earl of Stokeshire: Have to what?
Countess of Stokeshire: Respectfully submit!

User Reviews

a charming yawn

Roland Young stars in "Wedding Rehearsal," a 1932 British film with Wendy Barrie, Joan Gardner, and Merle Oberon. Young plays the Marquis of Buckminster who has to get married or get cut out of a will which would enable him to inherit quite a lot of money. Plus, his mother wants grandchildren. She gives him a list of suitable women, and the Marquis manages to get them married off so he doesn't have to marry one of them himself. Then he realizes he's in love with someone who didn't make the list.

Several of these actors went to Hollywood - most notably, Roland Young, Wendy Barrie, and Merle Oberon. Oberon is gorgeous and hardly in the film. Barrie and Gardner play twins Lady Mary Rose and Lady Rose Mary. Gardner was married to Alexander Korda's brother Zoltan until his death in 1961; she eventually retired to raise a family.

This is a charming film, very light, with a sweet ending. It doesn't have a lot of substance, though, and it drags. Still, it has its charms.