| 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]
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.
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]