Movie: Recaptured Love

Top 10 Billed Cast

Belle Bennett
Belle Bennett

Helen Parr

John Halliday
John Halliday

Brentwood Parr

Dorothy Burgess
Dorothy Burgess

Peggy Price

George Bickel
George Bickel

Crofts

Richard Tucker
Richard Tucker

Rawlings

Brooks Benedict
Brooks Benedict

Pat

Junior Durkin
Junior Durkin

Henry Parr

Louise Beavers
Louise Beavers

Maid

Wilbur Mack
Wilbur Mack

Jeff

Eleanor Gutöhrlein
Eleanor Gutöhrlein

Specialty Dancer (uncredited)

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    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 and becomes jealous.

  • Release Date

    1930-07-07

  • Average

    6

  • Rating:

    3.0 starts
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  • Languages:

    English
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