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The Right to Love (1930 American film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Right to Love' is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film which was nominated at the 4th Academy Awards for Best Cinematography (for Charles Lang).[https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/107989/The-Right-to-Love/details 'The Right to Love' details] , nytimes.com; accessed September 1, 2015. It was based on Susan Glaspell's 1928 novel 'Brook Evans'.Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature - Page 230 1438109105
Mary Ellen Snodgrass - 2014 ... settling in Delphi, Greece, Glaspell married the poet Norman Hghem Matson. She produced Brooke Evans (1928), the basis for the film The Right to Love (1930), and chronicled the collapse of her second union in Fugitive's Return (1929).
Premise
A woman learns she is illegitimate.
Cast
*Ruth Chatterton as Brooks Evans/Naomi Kellogg
*Paul Lukas as Eric
*David Manners as Joe Copeland
*Irving Pichel as Caleb Evans
*Louise Mackintosh as Mrs. Copeland
*Oscar Apfel as William Kellogg
*Veda Buckland as Mrs. Kellogg
*Robert Parrish as Willie
*Lillian West as Martha
*George C. Pearce as Dr. Scudder (credited as George Pearce)
References
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