Ready for Love (film)

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Ready for Love
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Directed by Marion Gering
Screenplay by J.P. McEvoy, William Slavens McNutt
Based ona novel by Roy Flanagan
Produced by Albert Lewis (producer), Emanuel Cohen (executive producer)
Starring Richard Arlen, Ida Lupino, Marjorie Rambeau
Cinematography Leon Shamroy
Edited by Eda Warren
Music by John Leipold, Heinz Roemheld and Tom Satterfield (all uncredited)
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • November 30, 1934 (1934-11-30)(Los Angeles)
Running time
62 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Ready for Love is a 1934 American romantic comedy film directed by Marion Gering and presented by Adolph Zukor for Paramount Pictures. It stars Richard Arlen, Ida Lupino, and Marjorie Rambeau. [1] It is inspired by the play The Whipping by Eulalie Spence, based on the 1930 novel The Whipping by Roy Flanagan. [2] [3] The film is about school runaway Marigold Tate (Ida Lupino) who "journeys to her retired aunt's home where she soon faces small-town bigotry", [4] and falls in love with handsome newspaper editor Julian Barrow (Richard Arlen). [5]

Contents

The film marks the first appearance of Terry, the Cairn Terrier who would go on to appear as Toto in The Wizard of Oz (1939). [6]

Plot

Marigold Tate runs away from boarding school to stay with her retired aunt. She faces hostility from the locals, who display bigotry and snobbery towards her. During a witchcraft trial she is forced into a pool of water. The event is covered by newspaper editor Julian Barrow, who falls in love with Tate. The couple eventually move to New York, where Barrow gets a job on a newspaper.

Cast

Production

Actress Ida Lupino was stricken with polio soon after filming commenced and was concerned during production that she might have to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Ready for Love". TCM. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  2. ↑ Donati, William (18 July 2013). Ida Lupino: A Biography. University Press of Kentucky. p. 244. ISBN   978-0-8131-4352-1.
  3. ↑ Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 924. ISBN   978-3-11-095194-3.
  4. ↑ Langman, Larry (2000). Destination Hollywood: The Influence of Europeans on American Filmmaking. McFarland. p. 246. ISBN   978-0-7864-0681-4.
  5. ↑ Sandra Brennan (2014). "Ready for Love". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  6. ↑ Braswell, Sean (25 August 2014). "From Carpet-Wetter To Film Icon: How Terry The Terrier Became Toto". NPR.
  7. ↑ Bubbeo, Daniel (15 October 2001). The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 Leading Ladies, with Filmographies for Each. McFarland. p. 158. ISBN   978-0-7864-1137-5.
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