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Recaptured Love (1930)
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.
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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.
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Genre:Comedy, Drama
Written By:Charles Kenyon
In Theaters:7/7/1930
Box Office:
Runtime:65 minutes
Studio:The Vitaphone Corporation
Cast
John G. Adolfi
Director
Belle Bennett
Helen Parr
John Halliday
Brentwood Parr
Dorothy Burgess
Peggy Price
George Bickel
Crofts
Richard Tucker
Rawlings
Brooks Benedict
Pat
Junior Durkin
Henry Parr
Louise Beavers
Maid
Wilbur Mack
Jeff
Eleanor Gutöhrlein
Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
Karla Gutöhrlein
Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
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