A Lady to Love
About A Lady to Love
Tony, a middle-aged Italian vineyard owner in California, advertises for a wife and sends a photograph of his hired man Buck. Lena, a San Francisco waitress, accepts. She finds Tony after an accident that has broken both his legs, and she marries him because she wants a home. She is irritated by Buck, then kisses him. Buck leaves, she nurses Tony for three months, and when Buck returns she has come to love her husband.
Cast & crew
More about A Lady to Love
Victor Sjöström directed and produced Sidney Howard's adaptation of his play They Knew What They Wanted. Merritt B. Gerstad photographed it and William Axt wrote the music. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released it on 28 February 1930.
Themes
Reviews
Mordaunt Hall, in The New York Times, wrote that the picture lacks pictorial mobility, and that Robinson's range, from light humor to the moment he finds himself forsaken, is gratifying.
Look
Merritt B. Gerstad shot the vineyard and the bedroom where Tony lies with both legs in casts.
Music
William Axt wrote the music.
Preservation
The copyright lapsed in 1958, and the film is in the public domain in the United States.
Notes
- Vilma Bánky plays Lena, Edward G. Robinson plays Tony, and Robert Ames plays Buck. Richard Carle is the postman and Lloyd Ingraham is Father McKee.
- Bánky and Robinson also played the leads in a German-language version, Die Sehnsucht jeder Frau, again directed by Sjöström, released in the United States a year later.
- Conrad A. Nervig and Leslie F. Wilder edited.
- The copyright was not renewed, and the film entered the public domain in the United States in 1958.
Scenes
- Lena's first sight of Tony is in bed with both legs broken.
- She kisses Buck after the wedding, then spends three months nursing Tony.
Influenced by
- Sidney Howard's play They Knew What They Wanted
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (A Lady To Love (1930).webm)
