Recaptured Love

{{short description|1930 film}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox film |name = Recaptured Love |image = Recaptured_Love_1930_Poster.jpg |producer = |director = John G. Adolfi |writer = Charles Kenyon based on the play ''Misdeal'' by Basil Woon |starring = John Halliday<br>Belle Bennett<br>Dorothy Burgess<br>Junior Durkin |music = |cinematography = John Stumar |editing = James Gibbon |distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures |released = {{Film date|1930|07|08}} |runtime = 77 minutes |language = English |country = United States}}

'''''Recaptured Love''''' is a 1930 early talkie pre-Code musical drama film based on the play ''Misdeal'' by Basil Woon about a man who experiences a mid life crisis that results in his divorce. It stars Belle Bennett and John Halliday.

==Plot== A 50-year-old married man goes with his wife and son to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger 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.

==Cast== *Belle Bennett as Helen Parr *John Halliday as Brentwood Parr *Dorothy Burgess as Peggy Price *Richard Tucker as Rawlings *Junior Durkin as Henry Parr *Brooks Benedict as Pat

==Preservation== The film survives complete. It was transferred on to 16mm film by Associated Artists Productions in 1966 and shown on television. A 16mm copy is housed at the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research.<ref>[http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wcftr/filmlist/title.asp?film_id=34834 Noted: Recaptured Love] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221001542/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wcftr/filmlist/title.asp?film_id=34834 |date=December 21, 2014 }}, wisconsinhistory.org; accessed July 23, 2015.</ref> It is also preserved in the Library of Congress collection.<ref>''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</ref>

==External links== * {{IMDb title|0021289}}

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Category:1930 films Category:Warner Bros. films Category:American comedy-drama films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films directed by John G. Adolfi Category:1930 comedy-drama films Category:1930 English-language films Category:1930 American films Category:English-language comedy-drama films