# Spanish Love

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{{Short description|Play by Avery Hopwood and Mary Roberts Rinehart}}
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{{Infobox play
| name       = Spanish Love
| image      =Spanish_Love_Playbill.png 
| image_alt  = 
| caption    = 
| writer     = {{Plainlist|
*[Avery Hopwood](/source/Avery_Hopwood)
*[Mary Roberts Rinehart](/source/Mary_Roberts_Rinehart)
}}
| based_on   = {{based on|''Maria del Carmen''|[Josep Feliu i Codina](/source/Josep_Feliu_i_Codina)}}
| characters = 
| setting    = 
| premiere   = {{Start date|1920|08|17}}
| place      = [Maxine Elliott Theatre](/source/Maxine_Elliott_Theatre)
| orig_lang  = English
| subject    =
| genre      = 
}}
[[File:Spanish Love Cast.png|thumb|Cast of Spanish Love. [William Powell](/source/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](/source/Avery_Hopwood) and [Mary Roberts Rinehart](/source/Mary_Roberts_Rinehart), who adapted an earlier Spanish play, ''María del Carmen'' by [Josep Feliu i Codina](/source/Josep_Feliu_i_Codina). Producers Lincoln Wagenhals and Collin Kemper staged it at the [Maxine Elliott Theatre](/source/Maxine_Elliott_Theatre) on [Broadway](/source/Broadway_theatre), 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](/source/The_Bat_(play))'', 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](/source/Ione_Bright)
|-
|Concepcion
|Kenyon Bishop
|-
|Migale
|Gus C. Weinburg
|-
|Domingo
|Henry Stephenson
|-
|Javier
|[William Powell](/source/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](/source/University_of_Michigan_Press)|year=1998|isbn=0-472-10963-4|location=Ann Arbor, Michigan|pages=132, 227}}</ref>}}
|-
|Pencho
|[James Rennie](/source/James_Rennie_(actor))
|-
|A Singer
|Ofelia Calvo
|-
|A Singer
|Jasper Mangione
|}
thumb|Cast of Spanish Love<ref name=":0" />

==Notes==
{{Notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IBDB show|8201}}

{{Avery Hopwood}}
{{Mary Roberts Rinehart}}

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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

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