The Right to Romance

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The Right to Romance
Harding Asther Right to Romance.jpg
Still with Nils Asther and Ann Harding
Directed by Alfred Santell
Screenplay by Sidney Buchman
Henry McCarty
Story byMyles Connolly
Produced by Merian C. Cooper
Starring Ann Harding
Robert Young
Nils Asther
Cinematography Lucien Andriot
Edited byRalph Dietrich
Music by Max Steiner
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • November 17, 1933 (1933-11-17)
Running time
65, 67 or 70 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Right to Romance is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film starring Ann Harding and Robert Young and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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Plot

A successful plastic surgeon meets a local playboy and impulsively marries him.

Cast

Preservation status

This is one of the "lost RKO films" owned by Merian C. Cooper and only re-released in April 2007 when Turner Classic Movies acquired the rights and showed all six films on TCM.

Cooper accused RKO of not paying him all the money contractually due for the films he produced in the 1930s. A settlement was reached in 1946, giving Cooper complete ownership of six RKO titles:

According to an interview with a retired RKO executive, shown as a promo on TCM, Cooper withdrew the films, only allowing them to be shown on television in 1955–1956 in New York City.

In 2006, Turner Classic Movies, which had acquired the rights to the six films after extensive legal negotiations, broadcast them on TCM in April 2007, their first full public exhibition in over 70 years. TCM, in association with the Library of Congress and the Brigham Young University Motion Picture Archive, had searched many film archives throughout the world to find copies of the films in order to create new 35mm prints. [2] [3] [4]

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