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Paid to Love
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6888 feet
Directed by Howard Hawks
Cast: George O’Brien [Crown Prince Michael], Virginia Valli [Gaby], J. Farrell MacDonald [Peter Roberts], William Powell [Prince Eric], Thomas Jefferson [King Haakon], Hank Mann [a servant], Merta Sterling [a maid], Henry Armetta [a valet], Gino Corrado [the tour director], Sally Eilers [the excited tourist girl], Diane Ellis [a tourist], Alphonse Martell [a dignatary], Francis McDonald [an Apache dancer], Jack Pennick [a bodyguard], Tiny Sandford [the bartender], Carl von Haartman [a military officer]
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation [Howard Hawks Production]. / Produced by William Fox. Scenario by William M. Conselman and Seton I. Miller, from the adaptation by Benjamin Glazer of a screen story by Harry Carr. Art direction by William S. Darling. Assistant director, James Tinling. Cinematography by L. William O’Connell. Film editor, Ralph Dixon. Intertitles written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. Presented by William Fox. / © 15 May 1927 by Fox Film Corporation [LP24014]. Premiered 23 July 1927 in New York, New York. Released 14 August 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Powell’s 25th film. The story was subsequently filmed (in Spanish by Fox Film Corporation) at Hay que casar al principe (1931). / Silent film.
Comedy-Drama.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 5 January 2025.
References: Quirk-Powell pp. 75-76 : ClasIm-220 p. 47 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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