Angora Love
About Angora Love
A goat named Penelope slips her rope outside a pet shop. Stan and Ollie feed her doughnuts, and she follows them to their room. They try to hide her from the landlord, Edgar Kennedy. Noise and smell give her away. A water fight spreads to a neighbor, Charlie Hall, and a policeman, Harry Bernard, who arrests the landlord. Stan and Ollie think they are clear until Penelope crawls out from under the bed with several kids.
Cast & crew
More about Angora Love
Lewis R. Foster directed. Leo McCarey wrote the story and H. M. Walker the titles. George Stevens photographed. Richard C. Currier edited. Hal Roach produced. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released it on 14 December 1929. Shot 8–14 March 1929, previewed late that month, copyrighted 3 September 1929, and held until December. No spoken dialogue. A synchronized organ score and sound effects were added for release. It is the last Laurel and Hardy film released without dialogue. Production number L-22, 21 minutes.
Themes
Making
The short sat from a March 1929 preview to a December release, by which time most of Hollywood had switched to dialogue.
Look
George Stevens photographed the pet-shop street and the rooming-house fight.
Music
No dialogue. The release print carries a synchronized organ score and sound effects.
Preservation
Prints circulate, including a copy on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- The pet shop in the opening is named The Elite Store.
- Charley Young plays Mr. Caribeau.
- Several jokes were reused in Laughing Gravy and The Chimp. The foot-rubbing gag returned in Beau Hunks.
- Argentina saw it in 1930, after some of their talkies, under Spanish titles as Amor de Angora.
Scenes
- Penelope gets loose from a lamp-post outside The Elite Store and follows the doughnuts.
- A water fight ends with the policeman arresting the landlord.
- The goat comes out from under the bed with her kids.
Also available
- Internet Archive (angora-love_1929)
- Wikimedia Commons (Angora Love (1929).webm)
