This Thing Called Love (1929 film)

This Thing Called Love
Lobby card from the film
Directed byPaul L. Stein
E. J. Babille (assistant)
Written byHorace Jackson (adaptation)
Screenplay byHorace Jackson
Based onThis Thing Called Love, a Comedy in Three Acts
1928 play
by Edwin J. Burke
Produced byRalph Block
StarringEdmund Lowe
Constance Bennett
Ruth Taylor
Roscoe Karns
ZaSu Pitts
CinematographyNorbert Brodin
Edited byDoane Harrison
Production
company
Pathé Exchange
Distributed byPathé Exchange
Release date
  • December 13, 1929 (1929-12-13) (United States)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.


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