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).The Right to Love details , nytimes.com; accessed September 1, 2015. It was based on Susan Glaspell's 1928 novel Brook Evans.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).
Premise A woman learns she is illegitimate.
Cast Ruth Chatterton as Brooks Evans/Naomi Kellogg Paul Lukas as Eric David Manners as Joe Copeland Irving Pichel as Caleb Evans Louise Mackintosh as Mrs. Copeland Oscar Apfel as William Kellogg Veda Buckland as Mrs. Kellogg Robert Parrish as Willie Lillian West as Martha George C. Pearce as Dr. Scudder (credited as George Pearce)
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