This Thing Called Love (1929 film)

{{short description|1929 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = This Thing Called Love

| image = File:This Thing Called Love 1929.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Lobby card from the film

| director = Paul L. Stein
E. J. Babille (assistant)

| producer = Ralph Block

| writer = Horace Jackson (adaptation)

| screenplay = Horace Jackson

| based_on = {{based on|This Thing Called Love, a Comedy in Three Acts
1928 play|Edwin J. Burke}}

| starring = Edmund Lowe
Constance Bennett
Ruth Taylor
Roscoe Karns
ZaSu Pitts

| music =

| cinematography = Norbert Brodin

| editing = Doane Harrison

| studio = Pathé Exchange

| distributor = Pathé Exchange

| released = {{Film date|1929|12|13|United States}}

| runtime = 72 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English}}

This Thing Called Love is a 1929 American romantic comedy pre-Code film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Edmund Lowe, Constance Bennett, Ruth Taylor, Roscoe Karns, and ZaSu Pitts. Jean Harlow appears in a cameo role as she was not yet famous. The film is based on the play This Thing Called Love, a Comedy in Three Acts, by Edwin J. Burke.{{cite book|last=White Munden|first=Kenneth |title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930|year=1997|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=0-520-20969-9|page=801}}

The film was recorded in RCA Photophone and featured a two-color Multicolor sequence. No complete copy survives, only the Multicolor sequence.{{citation needed|date=March 2013}}