- Recaptured Love
Infobox Film
name = Recaptured Love (1930)
caption = John Halliday and the Gold-Digger (Dorothy Burgess).
producer =
director =John G. Adolfi
writer =Charles Kenyon based on the play "Misdeal" byBasil Woon
starring =John Halliday Belle Bennett Dorothy Burgess Junior Durkin
music =
cinematography =John Stumar
editing =James Gibbon
distributor =Warner Bros.
released =July 8 ,1930
runtime = 77 Minutes
language = English
country = USA
imdb_id = 0021289|"Recaptured Love" (1930) is an All-Talking musical drama film based on the play "Misdeal" by Basil Woon.
Plot
In this drama, a 50 year old married man (played by
John Halliday ) goes to with his wife (Belle Bennett ) and son (Junior Durkin ) to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger (Dorothy Burgess ) there, singing the theme song of the picture, and eventually ends up going out with her on a subsequent occasion and falls in love with her. His wife finally finds out and this leads to her leaving him and getting a divorce in Paris. He is married to the gold-digger but finds life with her and her "jazz friends" to be too much for him. He begins to long for his old wife when he finds her in a nightclub with another man (Richard Tucker, not the famoustenor ) and becomes jealous.Trivia
The Sisters "G" (Eleanor Gutchrlein and Karla Gutchrlein) appear in the elaborate tango dance number at the beginning of the film. They were hired by Warner Bros. to star in a number of musical pictures but they left late in 1930 due to a backlash against musicals after appearing in only two more pictures, which proved to be their last.
The theme song is "If You Want to Be" and is sung by Dorothy Burgess. The entire movie has a musical track which features popular hits of the day as well as the theme song.
Preservation
The film survives complete.
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