Living on Love (1937)
A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basement apartment in shifts.
- Date of release
- 1937-11-12
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 1m
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- Director
- Lew Landers
Casting
- James Dunn — Gary Martin
- Whitney Bourne — Mary Wilson
- Joan Woodbury — Edith Crumwell
- Solly Ward — Eli West
- Tom Kennedy — Pete Ryan
- Franklin Pangborn — Ogilvie O. Oglethorpe
- Ken Terrell — Ghonoff Brother
- James Fawcett — Ghonoff Brother
- Chester Clute — Jessup
- Evelyn Carter Carrington — Madame La Valley
- Etta McDaniel — Lizbeth
- Harry Bowen — Man with Gorilla (uncredited)
Interesting facts
Living on Love is a 1937 American romantic comedy film released by RKO Radio Pictures. Directed by Lew Landers, it stars James Dunn, Whitney Bourne, and Joan Woodbury. The film is a remake of the RKO film Rafter Romance (1933). It 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 aired all six films on its channel.
Production
Living on Love was based on the 1932 novel Rafter Romance by John Wells. It was a remake of RKO's pre-Code 1933 film Rafter Romance. The present film's working titles were Love in a Basement and The Sky's the Limit.
The film was one of the first assignments for costume designer Renié.
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