Ready for Love (film) explained

Ready for Love
Director:Marion Gering
Producer:Albert Lewis (producer), Emanuel Cohen (executive producer)
Music:John Leipold, Heinz Roemheld and Tom Satterfield (all uncredited)
Cinematography:Leon Shamroy
Editing:Eda Warren
Studio:Paramount Pictures
Runtime:62 minutes
Country:United States
Language:English

Ready for Love is a 1934 American romantic comedy film directed by Marion Gering and presented by Adolph Zukor for Paramount Pictures. It stars Richard Arlen, Ida Lupino, and Marjorie Rambeau.[1] It is inspired by the play The Whipping by Eulalie Spence, based on the 1930 novel The Whipping by Roy Flanagan.[2] [3] The film is about school runaway Marigold Tate (Ida Lupino) who "journeys to her retired aunt's home where she soon faces small-town bigotry",[4] and falls in love with handsome newspaper editor Julian Barrow (Richard Arlen).[5]

The film marks the first appearance of Terry, the Cairn Terrier who would go on to appear as Toto in The Wizard of Oz (1939).[6]

Plot

Marigold Tate runs away from boarding school to stay with her retired aunt. She faces hostility from the locals, who display bigotry and snobbery towards her. During a witchcraft trial she is forced into a pool of water. The event is covered by newspaper editor Julian Barrow, who falls in love with Tate. The couple eventually move to New York, where Barrow gets a job on a newspaper.

Cast

Production

Actress Ida Lupino was stricken with polio soon after filming commenced and was concerned during production that she might have to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ready for Love. TCM. 9 June 2014.
  2. Book: Donati, William. Ida Lupino: A Biography. 18 July 2013. University Press of Kentucky. 978-0-8131-4352-1. 244.
  3. Book: Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. 1 January 1999. Walter de Gruyter. 978-3-11-095194-3. 924.
  4. Book: Langman, Larry. Destination Hollywood: The Influence of Europeans on American Filmmaking. 2000. McFarland. 978-0-7864-0681-4. 246.
  5. News: Ready for Love. https://web.archive.org/web/20140715184300/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/107345/Ready-for-Love/overview. dead. 15 July 2014. Movies & TV Dept.. The New York Times. Sandra Brennan. 2014. 9 June 2014.
  6. Web site: From Carpet-Wetter To Film Icon: How Terry The Terrier Became Toto . Sean . Braswell . 25 August 2014 . NPR.
  7. Book: Bubbeo, Daniel. The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 Leading Ladies, with Filmographies for Each. 15 October 2001. McFarland. 978-0-7864-1137-5. 158.