''Recaptured Love'' is a 1930 early talkie

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musical drama film based on the play ''Misdeal'' by

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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 (

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) and son (

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) to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger (

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) 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

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) and becomes jealous.

Cast

as Helen Parr * John Halliday as Brentwood Parr *

as Peggy Price *

Richard Tucker Richard Tucker (August 28, 1913January 8, 1975) was an American operatic tenor and cantor. Long associated with the Metropolitan Opera, Tucker's career was primarily centered in the United States. Early life Tucker was born Rivn (Rubin) Ticker ...

as Rawlings *

as Henry Parr *

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as Pat

Preservation

The film survives complete. It was transferred on to 16mm film by

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in 1966 and shown on television. A 16mm copy is housed at the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research. 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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References

1930 films Warner Bros. films American comedy-drama films American black-and-white films Films directed by John G. Adolfi 1930 comedy-drama films 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{1930s-comedy-drama-film-stub