Love Business
About Love Business
Jackie Cooper talks in his sleep about his teacher, Miss Crabtree. His mother takes her as a boarder. Chubby, also stuck on her, practices kissing a cardboard Greta Garbo outside the Greenpoint Theater. At dinner, mothballs that fell into the soup make everybody pull the same face. Chubby recites love lines he got from Wheezer, who took them from their mother's old letters. Jackie keeps walking through. Their mother hears Chubby's declaration.
Cast & crew
More about Love Business
Robert F. McGowan directed and produced with Hal Roach. Art Lloyd photographed it. Richard C. Currier edited. Leroy Shield and Marvin Hatley wrote music. MGM released it on February 14, 1931. It is the 104th Our Gang short and the 16th talkie. Two reels, about 20 minutes 12 seconds. May Wallace plays Jackie's mother.
Themes
Look
Art Lloyd shot the house dinner and the theater front where Chubby uses the Garbo standee.
Music
Leroy Shield and Marvin Hatley scored the short.
Notes
- Chubby's rehearsal partner is a theater cutout of Greta Garbo. Charley Chase and Thelma Todd also appear as photos in the lobby.
- Wheezer is the source of the poetry, and the poetry is their mother's old mail.
Scenes
- Mothballs in the soup make the table gag.
- Chubby kisses the cardboard Garbo before he tries the lines on Miss Crabtree.
