The Right to Love (1930 American film)

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The Right to Love
Paul Lukas Ruth Chatterton The Right To Love.jpg
Paul Lukas and Ruth Chatterton
Directed by Richard Wallace
Written by Zoe Akins
Susan Glaspell (novel- Brook Evans )
Starring Ruth Chatterton
Paul Lukas
David Manners
Cinematography Charles Lang
Edited by Eda Warren
Music by Karl Hajos (uncredited)
W. Franke Harling (uncredited)
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • December 27, 1930 (1930-12-27)
Running time
79 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Right to Love is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film which was nominated at the 4th Academy Awards for Best Cinematography (for Charles Lang). [1] [2] It was based on Susan Glaspell's 1928 novel Brook Evans. [3]

Contents

Premise

A woman learns she is illegitimate.

Cast

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References

  1. The Right to Love details Archived March 6, 2016, at the Wayback Machine , nytimes.com; accessed September 1, 2015.
  2. "The 4th Academy Awards (1931) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on October 10, 2014. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  3. Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature - Page 230 1438109105 Mary Ellen Snodgrass - 2014 ... settling in Delphi, Greece, Glaspell married the poet Norman Häghem Matson. She produced Brooke Evans (1928), the basis for the film The Right to Love (1930), and chronicled the collapse of her second union in Fugitive's Return (1929).