Tess of the Storm Country is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by directed by Alfred Santell and starring Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, and Dudley Digges. It was released by Fox Film Corporation. It is based on the novel of the same name by Grace Miller White and its adaptation for the stage by Rupert Hughes.
Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics Seventh Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), and Lucky Star (1929). Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two films and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.
The film's copyright was renewed in 1960.
Cast
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