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Love Business

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Love Business
Film poster
Directed byRobert F. McGowan
Written byH. M. Walker
Produced byRobert F. McGowan
Hal Roach
CinematographyArt Lloyd
Edited byRichard C. Currier
Music byLeroy Shield
Marvin Hatley
Distributed byMGM
Release date
  • February 14, 1931 (1931-02-14)
Running time
20:12
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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

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Jackie is hopelessly in love with Miss Crabtree, his teacher. 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 reciting poetry as Dorothy echos him in parody. 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, at the sight of him sleeping with Pete.

Note

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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

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The Gang

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Additional cast

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Hal Erickson (2011). "New York Times: Love Business". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 9, 2011. Retrieved September 19, 2008.
  2. ^ Maltin, Leonard; Bann, Richard W. (1977). Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals. Crown Publishers. pp. 123–125. ISBN 978-0-517-52675-0. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
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