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Play written by Preston Sturges This article is about the Broadway play. For the topic in US taxation, see Depreciation recapture (United States).

Recapture
Written by	Preston Sturges
Date premiered	January 29, 1930
Place premiered	Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre (B'way) New York City
Original language	English
Genre	drama
Setting	The Bellevue-Superbe-Palace Hotel in Vichy, France and the Villa Lune de Miel

Recapture is a 1930 drama in three acts by Preston Sturges, his third play to appear on Broadway.

The Broadway production was directed by Don Mullally and produced by A. H. Woods. It opened on January 29, 1930, at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre, and ran for 24 performances, closing in February of that year. According to Sturges, the play received "the most violently destructive notices had seen in years."

Appearing in the cast were Melvyn Douglas and Glenda Farrell.

References

Sturges, Preston; Sturges, Sandy (adapt. & ed.) (1991), Preston Sturges on Preston Sturges, Boston: Faber & Faber, ISBN 0-571-16425-0, p.254

External links

Recapture at the Internet Broadway Database
Preston Sturges at the Internet Broadway Database

Preston Sturges

Film

Written
and directed

The Great McGinty (1940)
Christmas in July (1940)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
The Great Moment (1944)
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)
Vendetta (uncredited, 1950)
The French, They Are a Funny Race (1955)

Written only

The Big Pond (dialogue, 1930)
Fast and Loose (add'l dialogue, 1930)
Strictly Dishonorable (play, 1931)
They Just Had to Get Married (uncredited, 1932)
Child of Manhattan (play, 1933)
The Power and the Glory (1933)
Twentieth Century (uncredited, 1934)
Thirty-Day Princess (1934)
We Live Again (adapter, 1934)
Imitation of Life (uncredited, 1934)
The Good Fairy (1935)
Diamond Jim (1935)
Next Time We Love (uncredited, 1936)
Love Before Breakfast (uncredited, 1936)
One Rainy Afternoon (lyrics, 1936)
Hotel Haywire (1937)
Easy Living (1937)
College Swing (uncredited, 1938)
Port of Seven Seas (1938)
If I Were King (1938)
Never Say Die (1939)
Remember the Night (1940)
New York Town (uncredited, 1941)
Safeguarding Military Information (1942)
I'll Be Yours (1947)
Strictly Dishonorable (play, 1951)
The Birds and the Bees (prev. screenplay, 1956)
Rock-A-Bye Baby (prev. screenplay, 1958)
Unfaithfully Yours (prev. screenplay, 1984)

Plays

List of actors who frequently worked with Preston Sturges
I Married a Witch
Eleanor Post Hutton (second wife)
Tom Sturges (son)
Shannon Sturges (granddaughter)

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