Spanish Love

{{Short description|Play by Avery Hopwood and Mary Roberts Rinehart}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox play | name = Spanish Love | image =Spanish_Love_Playbill.png | image_alt = | caption = | writer = {{Plainlist| *Avery Hopwood *Mary Roberts Rinehart }} | based_on = {{based on|''Maria del Carmen''|Josep Feliu i Codina}} | characters = | setting = | premiere = {{Start date|1920|08|17}} | place = Maxine Elliott Theatre | orig_lang = English | subject = | genre = }} [[File:Spanish Love Cast.png|thumb|Cast of Spanish Love. William Powell on left in lower image.<ref name=":0">Everybody's Magazine, Aug. 1921, pgs.94-95.</ref>]] '''''Spanish Love''''' is a three-act play by Avery Hopwood and Mary Roberts Rinehart, who adapted an earlier Spanish play, ''María del Carmen'' by Josep Feliu i Codina. Producers Lincoln Wagenhals and Collin Kemper staged it at the Maxine Elliott Theatre on Broadway, where it opened on August 17, 1920. Although critics had reservations about the play, the production was a success, running for over 300 performances. However, the play's success was overshadowed by the tremendous popularity of ''The Bat'', another collaboration between Hopwood and Rinehart that opened on Broadway the following week.<ref>{{cite book |title=Improbable Fiction: The Life of Mary Roberts Rinehart |first=Jan |last=Cohn |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press |location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |year=1980 |isbn=0-8229-3401-9 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/improbablefictio00janc/page/140 140–141] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/improbablefictio00janc/page/140}}</ref>

The story focuses on Javier and Pencho, two young Spanish men who are contending for the love of Maria del Carmen. Pencho is arrested after he injures Javier in a fight. Maria agrees to marry Javier to stop the prosecution of Pencho, but Javier dies before the wedding.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Best Plays of 1920-21 and the Year Book of the Drama in America |first=Burns |last=Mantle |author-link=Burns Mantle |publisher=Small, Maynard, & Company |location=Boston |year=1921 |oclc=71401622 |pages=366–367}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" |+Production Cast<ref>{{cite web |title=Spanish Love Cast |url=https://www.playbill.com/personlistpage/person-list?production=00000150-aea5-d936-a7fd-eef572130001&type=op#oc |url-status=live |website=Playbill |access-date=April 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418235314/https://www.playbill.com/personlistpage/person-list?production=00000150-aea5-d936-a7fd-eef572130001&type=op |archive-date=April 18, 2021}}</ref> !Character !Cast |- |Rogue |Wallace Hickman |- |Alvarez |Manola Thestino |- |Andres |Paul Huber |- |Tenete |Victor Hammond |- |Pepuso |Ben Hendricks |- |Anton |Frank Peters |- |Don Fulgencio |Russ Whytal |- |Maria del Carmen |Maria Ascarra |- |Fuensantica |Ione Bright |- |Concepcion |Kenyon Bishop |- |Migale |Gus C. Weinburg |- |Domingo |Henry Stephenson |- |Javier |William Powell (as William H. Powell){{efn|This was William Powell's first major Broadway role.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sharrar|first=Jack F.|title=Avery Hopwood: His Life and Plays|publisher=University of Michigan Press|year=1998|isbn=0-472-10963-4|location=Ann Arbor, Michigan|pages=132, 227}}</ref>}} |- |Pencho |James Rennie |- |A Singer |Ofelia Calvo |- |A Singer |Jasper Mangione |} thumb|Cast of Spanish Love<ref name=":0" />

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Category:1920 plays Category:Broadway plays Category:Plays by Avery Hopwood Category:Works by Mary Roberts Rinehart Category:Plays based on other plays