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Director
  
Marion Gering

Country
  
United States

6.8/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
June 27, 1931 (1931-06-27) (USA)

Based on
  
Lost Ecstasy (novel)  by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Writer
  
Vincent Lawrence, Mary Roberts Rinehart (novel)

I Take This Woman is a 1931 American romance film directed by Marion Gering and starring Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard.

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Based on the novel Lost Ecstasy (1927) by Mary Roberts Rinehart, the film is about a wealthy New York socialite who falls in love and marries a cowboy while staying at her father's ranch out West. After her father disinherits her, and after a year of living as a cowboy's wife, she leaves her husband and returns to her family in the East. The film was released by Paramount Pictures.

The film has no connection to the 1940 film I Take This Woman starring Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr, which is based on the Charles MacArthur story "A New York Cinderella".

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Plot

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Kay Dowling (Carole Lombard), the spoiled daughter of wealthy New York parents, is sent by her father (Charles Trowbridge) to his ranch in Ursula, Wyoming, fearing she will be named a co-respondent in a divorce case. Before she leaves, Kay's suitor, Herbert Forrest (Lester Vail), proposes marriage, but she chooses the ranch in Wyoming over a honeymoon cruise. Later, while spending her days on the ranch with her good-humored aunt Bessie, Kay falls reluctantly in love with one of her father's cowhands, Tom McNair (Gary Cooper), and impulsively marries him. When her father learns of the union, he disowns her. Kay and Tom are forced to live in a one-room shack while Tom tries to expand his cattle herd.

One year later, Kay is unhappy with life on the ranch, and longs for the comforts of her family's palatial mansion. One day she receives a telegram from home, and tells Tom that her father is sick and that she must be with him. Back in New York, Kay writes a letter to Tom, asking for a divorce. Soon after, Tom arrives at the estate and explains that he left the ranch to become a professional bronco rider in a rodeo. Kay assumes that he never received the letter, and Tom never mentions it. One night during a party, Tom overhears the guests making fun of him and he tells Kay she can have her divorce. Later, as she realizes that life with Herbert would amount to a life of playing golf, Kay visits Tom at the rodeo. During his performance, he is thrown from a bronco and hurt. Kay rushes to Tom's side, and the two reconcile and decide to return to the ranch.

Cast

  • Gary Cooper as Tom McNair
  • Carole Lombard as Kay Dowling
  • Helen Ware as Aunt Bessie
  • Lester Vail as Herbert Forrest
  • Charles Trowbridge as Mr. Dowling
  • Clara Blandick as Sue Barnes
  • Gerald Fielding as Bill Wentworth
  • Al Hart as Jake Mallory
  • Guy Oliver as Sid
  • Syd Saylor as Shorty
  • Mildred Van Dorn as Clara Hammell
  • Leslie Palmer as Phillips
  • Ara Haswell as Nora
  • Frank Darien as Station agent
  • David Landau as Circus boss
  • Preservation status

    This film apparently became an "orphan film" when the rights reverted to author Mary Roberts Rinehart. The original 35mm negative and all supporting material was shipped back to her, but she had no interest in (or appropriate storage for) the material. A single surviving nitrate print at UCLA Film & Television Archive became the basis for a restoration, funded by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation. The restored print was screened in March 2017 at the Festival of Preservation at UCLA.

    References

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