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I Take This Woman is a 1931 American pre-Code romance film directed by Marion Gering and starring Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard.
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".
Original Release
06/27/1931
US Release
06/27/1931
Cast
Name | Character |
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Gary Cooper | Tom McNair |
Carole Lombard | Kay Dowling |
Helen Ware | Aunt Bessie |
Lester Vail | Herbert Forrest |
Charles Trowbridge | Mr. Dowling |
Clara Blandick | Sue Barnes / Ranch Wife |
Gerald Fielding | Bill Wentworth |
Al Hart | Jake Mallory |
Guy Oliver | Sid |
Syd Saylor | Shorty |
Directors
Writers
Vincent Lawrence, Mary Roberts Rinehart
Cast
Name | Character |
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Gary Cooper | Tom McNair |
Carole Lombard | Kay Dowling |
Helen Ware | Aunt Bessie |
Lester Vail | Herbert Forrest |
Charles Trowbridge | Mr. Dowling |
Clara Blandick | Sue Barnes / Ranch Wife |
Gerald Fielding | Bill Wentworth |
Al Hart | Jake Mallory |
Guy Oliver | Sid |
Syd Saylor | Shorty |
Mildred Van Dorn | Clara Hammell |
Leslie Palmer | Phillips |
Ara Haswell | Nora |
Frank Darien | Station Agent |
David Landau | Circus Boss |
Lew Kelly | Justice of the Peace |
Robert Parrish | Boy at Railroad Station |
Lon Poff | Marriage License Clerk |