Love 'Em and Weep
About Love 'Em and Weep
Peaches, an old flame of businessman Titus Tillsbury, threatens to wreck his marriage and his job. He sends his aide, Romaine Ricketts, to keep her away from a dinner Titus and his wife are giving. Romaine passes Peaches off as his own wife, and Titus later pulls bits of a broken picture frame out of his backside after an incriminating photograph is destroyed. The cover ends with Titus and two men stacked inside a dress, pratfalls on a polished floor, and a beating from Mrs. Tillsbury.
Cast & crew
More about Love 'Em and Weep
Fred Guiol directed. Hal Roach produced and wrote the story, H. M. Walker wrote the titles, and Richard C. Currier edited. Pathé Exchange released it on June 12, 1927, after shooting in January.
Themes
Making
Floyd Jackman photographed the short. Charlie Hall plays Tillsbury's butler, and Clara Guiol plays Peaches' maid.
Look
Floyd Jackman photographed the two-reel farce, with the polished floor used for the pratfalls.
Music
Silent, with titles by H. M. Walker.
Preservation
The short is intact. Wikimedia Commons holds a digital copy.
Notes
- Mae Busch plays Peaches, Stan Laurel plays Romaine Ricketts, and James Finlayson plays Titus Tillsbury.
- Oliver Hardy appears as Judge Chigger, a guest, not as Laurel's partner.
- Charlotte Mineau is Mrs. Aggie Tillsbury and Vivien Oakland is Mrs. Ricketts.
- This was Mae Busch's first of fifteen films with Laurel and Hardy.
- The 1931 talkie Chickens Come Home remakes it, with Hardy in Finlayson's part and Finlayson among the guests.
- The two-man stack inside a woman's dress is an early version of the 'bent double' gag.
Scenes
- Titus pulls shards of the picture frame out of his backside.
- Two men stand on each other's shoulders inside a dress while Titus escorts 'her' home.
- Mrs. Tillsbury beats Titus at the end on general suspicion.
Influenced
- Chickens Come Home (1931)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Love Em and Weep (1927).webm)
