This Thing Called Love (1929 film)
1929 film
- December 13, 1929 (1929-12-13) (United States)
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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
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
- 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
References
- ^ 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
- 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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Films directed by Paul L. Stein
- Intrigue (1920)
- The Closed Chain (1920)
- My Wife's Diary (1920)
- The Eternal Struggle (1921)
- The Sacrifice of Ellen Larsen (1921)
- The Red Peacock (1921)
- A Debt of Honour (1921)
- It Illuminates, My Dear (1922)
- Power of Temptation (1922)
- The Chain Clinks (1923)
- A Dream of Happiness (1924)
- The Lion of Venice (1924)
- Fire of Love (1925)
- The Island of Dreams (1925)
- I Love You (1925)
- Tea Time in the Ackerstrasse (1926)
- My Official Wife (1926)
- The Forbidden Woman (1927)
- Don't Tell the Wife (1927)
- The Climbers (1927)
- Man-Made Women (1928)
- Honour Thy Mother (1928)
- Show Folks (1928)
- The Office Scandal (1929)
- Her Private Affair (1929)
- This Thing Called Love (1929)
- One Romantic Night (1930)
- The Lottery Bride (1930)
- Sin Takes a Holiday (1930)
- Born to Love (1931)
- The Common Law (1931)
- A Woman Commands (1932)
- Lily Christine (1932)
- Breach of Promise (1932)
- The Song You Gave Me (1933)
- Red Wagon (1933)
- Blossom Time (1934)
- Heart's Desire (1935)
- Mimi (1935)
- Faithful (1936)
- Cafe Colette (1937)
- Jane Steps Out (1938)
- Black Limelight (1939)
- The Outsider (1939)
- Poison Pen (1939)
- Just like a Woman (1939)
- It Happened to One Man (1940)
- The Saint Meets the Tiger (1941)
- Talk About Jacqueline (1942)
- Kiss the Bride Goodbye (1945)
- Twilight Hour (1945)
- Waltz Time (1945)
- Lisbon Story (1946)
- The Laughing Lady (1946)
- Counterblast (1948)
- The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery (1950)
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