Tess of the Storm Country (1932 film)

Tess of the Storm Country
Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor
Directed by	Alfred Santell
Screenplay by	Sonya Levien S. N. Behrman
Based on	Grace Miller White(novel) Rupert Hughes(play)
Produced by	William Fox
Starring	Janet Gaynor Charles Farrell
Cinematography	Hal Mohr
Edited by	Ralph Dietrich (*uncredited)
Music by	Louis De Francesco (*uncredited)
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release dates	November 19, 1932 (1932-11-19)(New York City) November 20, 1932 (1932-11-20)(U.S.) [1]
Running time	75 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Tess of the Storm Country is a 1932 American pre-Code Fox Film Corporation drama film directed by Alfred Santell and starring Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell and Dudley Digges. It is based on the novel of the same name by Grace Miller White and its adaptation for the stage by Rupert Hughes. ^{[2] [3]}

Gaynor and Farrell appeared in numerous films together, including Frank Borzage's classics Seventh Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928) and Lucky Star (1929).

The film's copyright was renewed in 1960. ^[4]

Cast

Janet Gaynor

• Janet Gaynor as Tess Howland
• Charles Farrell as Frederick Garfield Jr.
• Dudley Digges as Captain Howland
• Dan Green as Katsura
• June Clyde as Teola Garfield
• Claude Gillingwater as Frederick Garfield Sr.
• George Meeker as Dan Taylor
• Sarah Padden as Old Martha
• Edward Pawley as Ben Letts

Reception

In a contemporary review for The New York Times , critic Andre Sennwald called Tess of the Storm Country "a pleasant resurrection" of the story and wrote that the film is "excellently acted". ^[5]

See also

• List of American films of 1932
• 1932 in film

References

1. "Tess of the Storm Country (1932) Release Info". IMDb.
2. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1932-40 by The American Film Institute, c. 1993
3. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:..Tess of the Storm Country
4. "Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series. Parts 12-13: Motion Pictures and Filmstrips Jan-Dec 1960: Vol 14 No 1-2". U.S. Govt. Print. Off. 1960.
5. Sennwald, Andre (November 19, 1932). "The Screen: Tallulah Bankhead and Robert Montgomery in a Film Version of a Story by Mildred Cram". The New York Times . p. 20.

External links

• Tess of the Storm Country (1932) at IMDb