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The Wedding March (Original title)
Date: 1928 (Release)

Country: USA

Director: Erich von Stroheim

Synopsis: The son of a branch of the Austrian royal family reluctantly accepts the marriage arranged by his parents, but falls in love with a poor girl, and finds the situation intolerable.

Genre:
Melodrama
Credits (21)
Production Company: Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, Presented by: Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky, Producer: P.A. Powers, Assistant Director: Edward Sowders, Assistant Director: Louis Germonprez, Assistant Director: Richard Day, Screenplay: Erich von Stroheim, Screenplay: Harry Carr, Photography: Hal Mohr, Photography: B. Sorenson, Photography: Ben Reynolds, Art Director: Richard Day, Art Director: Erich von Stroheim, Costumes: Max Rée, Original Music Synchronisation: J.S. Zamecnik, Song 'Paradise': Harry D. Kerr, J.S. Zamecnik, Military Assistant: Albert Conti, D.R.O. Hatswell
Cast (20)
George Fawcett (Prince von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg), Maude George (Princess von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg), Lucille Van Lent (maid to Prince Nicholaus), George Nichols (Fortunat Schweisser), Erich von Stroheim (Prince 'Nicki'), ZaSu Pitts (Cecelia Schweisser, his daughter), Hughie Mack (Anton Eberle, wine-garden proprietor), Matthew Betz ('Schani' Eberle, his son), Cesare Gravina (Martin Schrammell), Dale Fuller (Katerina Schrammell, his wife), Fay Wray (Mitzi Schrammell, his daughter), Anton Vaverka (Emperor Franz Joseph I), Don Ryan (H.I.H. Archduke leopold Salvator), Sidney Bracey (Navratil, valet to Prince 'Nicki'), John S. Peters, Carey Harrison, Harry Reinhardt, Albert Conti (officer of the Imperial Guard), William von Brincken, Ferdinand Schumann-Heink (Officer of the Imperial Guard)