Love Business

1931 film

February 14, 1931 (1931-02-14)

Running time

20:12CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Love Business is a 1931 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan.^[1] It was the 104th Our Gang short to be released.^[2]

Plot

Jackie is hopelessly in love with Miss Crabtree. At the same time, his sister Mary Ann tells their mother that Jackie is in love with Miss Crabtree. Jackie runs off to school without eating breakfast. Meanwhile, Miss Crabtree becomes a boarder in Jackie's home and moves in later that day. Chubby is also in love with Miss Crabtree, and practices kissing her on an oversized cardboard statue of Greta Garbo. At school, Wheezer tells Jackie, Mary Ann, Chubby, Farina, Donald and Bonedust that Miss Crabtree is moving into their house. Jackie has mixed emotions about this.

That evening, Miss Crabtree has dinner with Jackie, Mary Ann, Wheezer and their mother. Mothballs fell into the soup a bit earlier, giving the soup a very bitter taste. Later, Chubby stops in to see Miss Crabtree, and recites some very romantic poetry. Miss Crabtree asks Chubby where he got all this stuff. He says from Wheezer (who got them from his mother's old love letters). Mother hears this and is about to give Wheezer a spanking, but decides not to in the end.

Note

Most of the schoolyard scenes were edited from The Little Rascals television prints in 1971 due to stereotyping of African-Americans, but were reinstated in the 1990s home video market.^{[citation needed]}

Cast

The Gang

Jackie Cooper as Jackie Cooper
Norman Chaney as Norman 'Chubby'
Matthew Beard as Stymie
Dorothy DeBorba as Dorothy 'Echo'
Allen Hoskins as Farina
Bobby Hutchins as Wheezer Cooper
Mary Ann Jackson as Mary Ann Cooper
Shirley Jean Rickert as Shirley
Donald Haines as Donald
Bobby Young as Bonedust
Pete the Pup as himself

Additional cast

June Marlowe as Miss June Crabtree
May Wallace as May Wallace Cooper, Jackie's mother
Baldwin Cooke as Undetermined role

References

^ Hal Erickson (2011). "New York Times: Love Business". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on May 9, 2011. Retrieved September 19, 2008.
^ Maltin, Leonard; Bann, Richard W. (1977). Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals. Crown Publishers. pp. 123–125. Retrieved March 3, 2024.