The Right to Romance
1933 film by Alfred Santell
- November 17, 1933 (1933-11-17)
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The Right to Romance is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film starring Ann Harding and Robert Young and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
Plot
A successful plastic surgeon meets a local playboy and impulsively marries him.
Cast
- Ann Harding as Dr. Peggy Simmons
- Robert Young as Bobby Preble
- Nils Asther as Dr. Helmuth Heppling
- Sari Maritza as Lee Joyce
- Irving Pichel as Dr. Beck
- Helen Freeman as Mrs. Preble
- Alden Chase as Bunny Allen
- Delmar Watson as Bill
- Louise Carter as The dowager
- Bramwell Fletcher as The boy
- Patricia O'Brien as Eve Lane
- Howard Hickman as Dr. Macey
- Thelma Hardwick as Sister Elizabeth
Preservation status
This is one of the "lost RKO films" owned by Merian C. Cooper and only re-released in April 2007 when Turner Classic Movies acquired the rights and showed all six films on TCM.
Cooper accused RKO of not paying him all the money contractually due for the films he produced in the 1930s. A settlement was reached in 1946, giving Cooper complete ownership of six RKO titles:
- Rafter Romance (1933) with Ginger Rogers
- Double Harness (1933) with Ann Harding and William Powell
- The Right to Romance (1933)
- One Man's Journey (1933) with Lionel Barrymore
- Living on Love (1937)
- A Man to Remember (1938)
According to an interview with a retired RKO executive, shown as a promo on TCM, Cooper withdrew the films, only allowing them to be shown on television in 1955–1956 in New York City.
In 2006, Turner Classic Movies, which had acquired the rights to the six films after extensive legal negotiations, broadcast them on TCM in April 2007, their first full public exhibition in over 70 years. TCM, in association with the Library of Congress and the Brigham Young University Motion Picture Archive, had searched many film archives throughout the world to find copies of the films in order to create new 35mm prints.[2][3][4]
References
- ^ The Right to Romance at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- ^ Fristoe, Roger. "Rafter Romance" (TCM article)
- ^ Osborne, Robert. Turner Classic Movies broadcast on April 4 and 11, 2007.
- ^ Eder, Bruce "Rafter Romance" (AMG review)
External links
- The Right to Romance at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- The Right to Romance at IMDb
- The Right to Romance at AllMovie
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Films directed by Alfred Santell
- Beloved Rogues (1917)
- It Might Happen to You (1920)
- Wildcat Jordan (1922)
- Lights Out (1923)
- The Man Who Played Square (1924)
- Empty Hearts (1924)
- Fools in the Dark (1924)
- Classified (1925)
- The Marriage Whirl (1925)
- Parisian Nights (1925)
- Bluebeard's Seven Wives (1926)
- The Dancer of Paris (1926)
- Subway Sadie (1926)
- Sweet Daddies (1926)
- Just Another Blonde (1926)
- The Gorilla (1927)
- Orchids and Ermine (1927)
- The Patent Leather Kid (1927)
- The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1928)
- Wheel of Chance (1928)
- Show Girl (1928)
- Romance of the Rio Grande (1929)
- This Is Heaven (1929)
- Twin Beds (1929)
- The Arizona Kid (1930)
- The Sea Wolf (1930)
- Sob Sister (1931)
- Body and Soul (1931)
- Daddy Long Legs (1931)
- Tess of the Storm Country (1932)
- Polly of the Circus (1932)
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932)
- Bondage (1933)
- The Right to Romance (1933)
- The Life of Vergie Winters (1934)
- A Feather in Her Hat (1935)
- People Will Talk (1935)
- Winterset (1936)
- Breakfast for Two (1937)
- Internes Can't Take Money (1937)
- Cocoanut Grove (1938)
- Having Wonderful Time (1938)
- The Arkansas Traveler (1938)
- Our Leading Citizen (1939)
- Aloma of the South Seas (1941)
- Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942)
- Jack London (1943)
- The Hairy Ape (1944)
- Mexicana (1945)
- That Brennan Girl (1946)
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