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This Thing Called Love (1929 film)

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'This Thing Called Love' is a 1929 American romantic comedy film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Edmund Lowe, Constance Bennett, Ruth Taylor, Roscoe Karns, ZaSu Pitts, and Jean Harlow. 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.

The film was recorded in RCA Photophone and featured a two-color Technicolor sequence. No complete copy survives, only the Technicolor sequence.

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



*List of early color feature films

*List of lost films

References




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