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Director
  
Alfred Santell

Music director
  
Max Steiner, Roy Webb

Country
  
United States

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Romance

Duration
  

Language
  
English

The Right to Romance movie poster

Release date
  
November 17, 1933 (1933-11-17)

Writer
  
Sidney Buchman (screen play), Henry McCarty (screen play), Myles Connolly (from a story by)

Screenplay
  
Sidney Buchman, Henry McCarty

Cast
  
Ann Harding
(Dr. Margaret Simmons),
Robert Young
(Bobby Preble),
Nils Asther
(Dr. Helmuth Heppling),
Irving Pichel
(Dr. Beck),
Helen Freeman
(Mrs. Preble),
Sari Maritza
(Lee Joyce)

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Four Weddings and a Funeral
,
27 Dresses
,
Meet the Parents
,
In Her Shoes
,
The Wedding Ringer
,
Independence Day

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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Premise

A successful plastic surgeon (Ann Harding) meets a local playboy (Robert Young) and impulsively marries him.

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:

  • Rafter Romance (1933) with Ginger Rogers
  • Double Harness (1933) with Ann Harding and William Powell
  • The Right to Romance (1933)
  • One Man's Journey (1933) with Lionel Barrymore
  • Living on Love (1937)
  • A Man to Remember (1938)

    • 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.

    References

    The Right to Romance Wikipedia
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    The Right to Romance IMDb The Right to Romance themoviedb.org