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I Loved You Wednesday

Director: Henry King (Dir) Release Date: 16 Jun 1933 Production Date: began 27 Mar 1933 Duration (in mins): 75 or 77 Duration (in feet): 6,900			Print this page Display Movie Summary

Cast:	Warner Baxter	(Philip Fletcher)
	Elissa Landi	(Vicki Meredith)
	Victor Jory	(Randall Williams)
	Miriam Jordan	(Cynthia Williams)
	Laura Hope Crews	(Doc Mary Hanson)
	June Vlasek	(Ballet dancer)
	Fox Movietone Studio Dancers
	Sam Coslow	(Orchestra leader)

Summary:

Vicki Meredith, a ballet dancer living in Paris, is about to take a trip to Brittany with her new lover, Randall Williams, when Randall gets a telegram informing him that his wife has arrived in Paris. Shocked and hurt by the revelation that Randall is married, Vicki leaves Paris for South America to forget him. In South America, Vicki meets Philip Fletcher, a construction engineer, and they fall in love. Five months later, Vicki and Philip sail to New York and part ways, Philip taking a job at Boulder Dam and Vicki going off to Paris to dance again. Five years pass, and Vicki and Philip reunite in New York, only to be intruded upon by Randall, who shows up unexpectedly, and appears still to be interested in Vicki. Randall and Philip vie for Vicki's affections when they escort her to Henri's speakeasy, where Cynthia Williams, Randall's wife, meets Vicki. Cynthia and Vicki become fast friends despite their respective resolves to hate each other. When Vicki learns that both Philip and Randall plan to sail to Paris on the same steamer, she is forced to choose between the two. Vicki wants Philip to invite her along to make her decision easier, but he decides to test her by refusing to ask her. Eventually, Vicki breaks her silence and chooses Philip, and the two are soon married.

Production Company:	Fox Film Corp.
Production Text:	Henry King's Production
Distribution Company:	Fox Film Corp.
Director:	Henry King	(Dir)
	William Cameron Menzies	(Dir)
	Charles Woolstenhulme	(Asst dir)
Writer:	Philip Klein	(Scr)
	Horace Jackson	(Scr)
	Eugene Walters	(Contr wrt)
Photography:	Hal Mohr	(Cam)
	William Skall	(Cam op)
	Irving Rosenberg	(Cam op)
	Warren Lynch	(Cam op)
	Robert Surtees	(Asst cam)
	Robert Mack	(Asst cam)
Art Direction:	Joseph Wright	(Settings)
Film Editor:	Frank Hull	(Ed)
	Lawrence Moore	(Ed asst)
Costumes:	Rita Kaufman	(Frocks)
Music:	Louis De Francesco	(Mus dir)
Sound:	Donald Flick	(Sd)
Dance:	Sammy Lee	(Ballet and dances by)
Production Misc:	Walter Faxon	(Chief grip)
	William McKee	(Props)
	Cliff Maupin	(Still photog)
Country:	United States

Songs:	"Hills of Old New Hampshire," music and lyrics by Will Vodery; "I Found You--I Lost You, I Found You Again," music by I. B. Kornblum, lyrics by L. Wolfe Gilbert; "I Know His Voice," music and lyrics by Charles Oaks; "I Loved You Wednesday," music and lyrics by Abner Silver, Walter Kent and Milton Drake; "It's All for the Best," music and lyrics by Richard A. Whiting; "Roll Your Bones," music and lyrics by Sidney D. Mitchell and Harry Akst.
Composer:	Harry Akst
	Milton Drake
	L. Wolfe Gilbert
	Walter Kent
	I. B. Kornblum
	Art McKay
	Sidney D. Mitchell
	Charles Oaks
	Abner Silver
	Will Vodery
	Richard A. Whiting
Source Text:	Based on the play I Loved You Wednesday by Molly Ricardel and William DuBois (New York, 11 Oct 1932).
Authors:	William DuBois
	Molly Ricardel

Copyright Claimant	Copyright Date	Copyright Number
Fox Film Corp.	2/6/1933 dd/mm/yyyy	LP3936

Physical Properties:	Sd:
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Genre:	Comedy-drama

Subjects (Major):	Americans in foreign countries
	Marriage
	Mistresses
	Romance
	Romantic rivalry

Subjects (Minor):	Ballet
	Hoover Dam (AZ and NV)
	New York City
	Paris (France)
	Philanderers
	Separation (Marital)
	South America
	Steamboats
	Tests of character

Note:	The play on which this film was based was a revised version of the unpublished play It Couldn't Happen Twice by Molly Ricardel and William DuBois (copyrighted in 1932). According to the onscreen credits, the engineering scenes were filmed on location at Boulder Dam (which was renamed Hoover Dam in 1947). The NYT review notes that the film's title was taken from a line in Edna St. Vincent Millay's lyric poem "Thursday." Although the producers of the film failed to obtain permission from Millay to use her poem in the film, the lines, "And if I lived you Wednesday,/Well, what is that to you?/I do not love you Thursday--/So much is true" appeared in the program of the play's engagment at the Sam H. Harris Theatre. A FD news item indicates that the song "My First Love to Last," which was used as a dance tune in the film, was taken from the 1931 Fox film Adorable (see above), and that Sam Coslow, a well-known orchestra leader and songwriter, made his screen debut in the film in the role of the orchestra conductor.

Bibliographic Sources:	Date	Page
Film Daily	22 Mar 33	p. 2.
Film Daily	3 May 33	p. 7.
Film Daily	16 Jun 33	p. 7.
Hollywood Reporter	16 Jun 33	p. 3.
International Photographer	1 Jun 33	p. 34.
New York Times	16 Jun 33	p. 20.
Motion Picture Daily	16 Jun 33	p. 6.
Motion Picture Herald	24 Jun 33	p. 55.
Variety	20 Jun 33	p. 11.

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