The Right to Love (1930 American film)

{{Infobox film

| name = The Right to Love

|image=File:Paul Lukas Ruth Chatterton The Right To Love.jpg

|caption=Paul Lukas and Ruth Chatterton

| director = Richard Wallace

| producer =

| writer = Zoe Akins
Susan Glaspell (novel-Brook Evans)

| starring = Ruth Chatterton
Paul Lukas
David Manners

| music = Karl Hajos (uncredited)
W. Franke Harling (uncredited)

| cinematography = Charles Lang

| editing =Eda Warren

| distributor = Paramount Pictures

| released = {{film date|1930|12|27}}

| runtime = 79 minutes

| language = English

| country = United States}}

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).[https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/107989/The-Right-to-Love/details The Right to Love details] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306080758/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/107989/The-Right-to-Love/details |date=March 6, 2016 }}, nytimes.com; accessed September 1, 2015.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1932 |title=The 4th Academy Awards (1931) Nominees and Winners |accessdate=May 21, 2019 |publisher=Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20141010191946/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1932 |archivedate=October 10, 2014 }} 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).