This Thing Called Love
| This Thing Called Love | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Paul L. Stein |
| Produced by | Ralph Block |
| Written by | Edwin Burke (play) Horace Jackson (adaptation) |
| Starring | Edmund Lowe Constance Bennett Ruth Taylor Roscoe Karns Zazu Pitts Jean Harlow |
| Cinematography | Norbert Brodine |
| Distributed by | Pathe Exchange |
| Release date(s) |  13 December 1929 |
| Running time | 80 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Silent |
This Thing Called Love (1929) is a US romantic comedy film starring Edmund Lowe, Constance Bennett, Ruth Taylor, Roscoe Karns, Zazu Pitts, and Jean Harlow. Harlow appears in a cameo role, as she was not yet famous.
The film was released in a sound version recorded in RCA Photophone and in a silent version. Today no complete copy of this movie survives, only the Technicolor sequence.[1][2]
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[edit] 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 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.
