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Recaptured Love
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Wikipedia article
'Recaptured Love' is a 1930 early talkie pre-Code musical drama film based on the play 'Misdeal' by Basil Woon about a man who experiences a mid life crisis that results in his divorce. It stars Belle Bennett and John Halliday.
Plot
In this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John Halliday) goes 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 famous tenor) and becomes jealous.
Cast
*Belle Bennett as Helen Parr
*John Halliday as Brentwood Parr
*Dorothy Burgess as Peggy Price
*Richard Tucker as Rawlings
*Junior Durkin as Henry Parr
*Brooks Benedict as Pat
Preservation
The film survives complete. It was transferred on to 16mm film by Associated Artists Productions in 1966 and shown on television. A 16mm copy is housed at the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research.[http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wcftr/filmlist/title.asp?film_id=34834 Noted: Recaptured Love], wisconsinhistory.org; accessed July 23, 2015. It is also preserved in the Library of Congress collection.'Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress', (<-book title) p.150 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
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