This Thing Called Love (1929 film)
| This Thing Called Love | |
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 Lobby card from the film | |
| Directed by | Paul L. Stein E. J. Babille (assistant) |
| Written by | Horace Jackson (adaptation) |
| Screenplay by | Horace Jackson |
| Based on | This Thing Called Love, a Comedy in Three Acts 1928 play by Edwin J. Burke |
| Produced by | Ralph Block |
| Starring | Edmund Lowe Constance Bennett Ruth Taylor Roscoe Karns ZaSu Pitts |
| Cinematography | Norbert Brodin |
| Edited by | Doane Harrison |
Production company | Pathé Exchange |
| Distributed by | Pathé Exchange |
Release date |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
This Thing Called Love is a 1929 American romantic comedy pre-Code film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Edmund Lowe, Constance Bennett, Ruth Taylor, Roscoe Karns, and ZaSu Pitts. Jean Harlow appears in a cameo role as she was not yet famous. The film is based on the play This Thing Called Love, a Comedy in Three Acts, by Edwin J. Burke.[1]
The film was recorded in RCA Photophone and featured a two-color Multicolor sequence. No complete copy survives, only the Multicolor sequence.[citation needed]
Plot
[edit]A man returns from a trip to Peru rich and looking for a wife. While still single, he has a real estate agent show him a house or two. The agent invites him to dinner, during which the agent and his wife start bickering, causing the poor fellow to rethink marriage over. He does still want to share his home with someone, however, so he has the agent's sister-in-law move in. Eventually, they fell in love.
Cast
[edit]- Edmund Lowe as Robert Collins
- Constance Bennett as Ann Marvin
- Roscoe Karns as Harry Bertrand
- ZaSu Pitts as Clara Bertrand
- Carmelita Geraghty as Alvarez Guerra
- John Roche as DeWitt
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ White Munden, Kenneth (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930. University of California Press. p. 801. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.
External links
[edit]- This Thing Called Love at IMDb
- This Thing Called Love at the TCM Movie Database
- This Thing Called Love at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- This Thing Called Love at SilentEra
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