Recaptured Love
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Recaptured Love is an All-Talking musical drama film based on the play Misdeal by Basil Woon
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) goes with his wife (Belle Bennett
) and son (Junior Durkin
) to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger (Dorothy Burgess
) there, singing the theme song of the picture, and eventually ends up going out with her on a subsequent occasion and falls in love with her. His wife finally finds out and this leads to her leaving him and getting a divorce in Paris. He is married to the gold-digger but finds life with her and her "jazz friends" to be too much for him. He begins to long for his old wife when he finds her in a nightclub with another man (Richard Tucker, not the famous tenor
) and becomes jealous.
The theme song is "If You Want to Be" and is sung by Dorothy Burgess. The entire movie has a musical track which features popular hits of the day as well as the theme song.
Basil Woon
Basil Dillon Woon was a British playwright, American author, and American journalist.* Worked for* United Press covering the Mexican Revolution* New York World* The Houston Press* San Francisco News...
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Plot
In this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John HallidayJohn Halliday
John Halliday was an American actor of stage and screen, who often played suave aristocrats and foreigners....
) goes with his wife (Belle Bennett
Belle Bennett
Belle Bennett was a stage and screen actress who started her professional career in vaudeville. She was born in Milaca, Minnesota.-Stage actress:...
) and son (Junior Durkin
Junior Durkin
Junior Durkin, born Trent Bernard Durkin , was an American film actor from New York, New York. Durkin began his acting career in theater while a child. He entered films in 1930, and played the role of Huckleberry Finn in Tom Sawyer , and Huckleberry Finn...
) to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger (Dorothy Burgess
Dorothy Burgess
Dorothy Burgess was a stage and motion picture actress from Los Angeles, California.-Family, education:She was a niece of Fay Bainter. On her father's side she was related to George Montgomery of Montgomery and Stone. Her grandfather was Henry A. Burgess, Sr. He came to Los Angeles in 1893,...
) there, singing the theme song of the picture, and eventually ends up going out with her on a subsequent occasion and falls in love with her. His wife finally finds out and this leads to her leaving him and getting a divorce in Paris. He is married to the gold-digger but finds life with her and her "jazz friends" to be too much for him. He begins to long for his old wife when he finds her in a nightclub with another man (Richard Tucker, not the famous tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
) and becomes jealous.
Trivia
The Sisters "G" (Eleanor Gutchrlein and Karla Gutchrlein) appear in the elaborate tango dance number at the beginning of the film. They were hired by Warner Bros. to star in a number of musical pictures but they left late in 1930 due to a backlash against musicals after appearing in only two more pictures, which proved to be their last.The theme song is "If You Want to Be" and is sung by Dorothy Burgess. The entire movie has a musical track which features popular hits of the day as well as the theme song.