''This Thing Called Love'' is a 1929 American

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film directed by

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and starring

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, Ruth Taylor,

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, and

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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. The film was recorded in

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and featured a two-color

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sequence. No complete copy survives, only the Technicolor sequence.

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, during which the agent and his wife start bickering, causing the poor fellow to rethink marriage over. He does still want to share his home with someone, however, so he has the agent's sister-in-law move in. Eventually, they fell in love.

Cast

as Robert Collins *

as Ann Marvin *

as Harry Bertrand *

as Clara Bertrand * Carmelita Geraghty as Alvarez Guerra * John Roche as DeWitt

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''This Thing Called Love'' at SilentEra
1929 films 1929 romantic comedy films 1920s color films 1929 lost films American black-and-white films American independent films American romantic comedy films American films based on plays Films directed by Paul L. Stein Lost American films Transitional sound films Pathé Exchange films 1920s independent films 1920s American films Silent romantic comedy films {{1920s-romantic-comedy-film-stub

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