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This Thing Called Love is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Paul L. Stein released in USA on 13 december 1929 with Edmund Lowe
This Thing Called Love (1929)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 13 december 1929
Length 1h12
Directed by Paul L. Stein
OriginUSA
Themes Films based on plays
Rating64%
This Thing Called Love is a 1929 American romantic comedy film 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.
This Thing Called Love was recorded in RCA Photophone and featured a two-tone Technicolor sequence. No complete copy of this movie survives, only the Technicolor sequence.
Synopsis
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 then him (the agent) and his wife start bickering, causing the poor fellow to rethink marriage over. He decides he wants to share his home with someone so he has his agent's sister-in-law move in. Later on they both fell in love.Actors
Edmund Lowe
(Robert Collings)
Constance Bennett
(Ann Marvin)
Roscoe Karns
(Harry Bertrand)
Carmelita Geraghty
(Alvarez Guerra)
Zasu Pitts
(Clara Bertrand)
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