"Dedicated to the true lovers of the world," The Wedding March resumes von Stroheim's cruel and comic debates over love, money, class and marriage – escapades that were perhaps partly a mirror of his own sacrifices and quandaries over the pragmatic Hollywood box office versus unrestrained, perfectionistic artistry. Von Stroheim plays the Austrian Prince Nicki with a nuanced portrayal of a practical playboy who experiences love yet cannot proceed with a marriage outside of his station. The object of his affections is the fair daughter of an innkeeper and his fiancée – a delicate introvert with a limp – is the daughter of a wealthy corn-plaster magnate. Plumbing the depths of tragedy with a complex smile, von Stroheim tempers an idyllic, supernatural fantasy realm with the unsentimental, grotesque follies of both the aristocrat and the commoner, and tops it off with a Corpus Christi parade in surprising two-strip Technicolor.