Love Business

(1931)

20 minutes

Comedy / Silent

Directed by Robert F. McGowan  

Cast:

Jackie Cooper as Jackie
Norman 'Chubby' Chaney as Chubby
Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins as Wheezer
Mary Ann Jackson as Mary Ann
Allen 'Farina' Hoskins as Farina
Matthew 'Stymie' Beard as Stymie
Dorothy DeBorba as Echo
Donald Haines as Donald
Clifton Young as Bonedust
Shirley Jean Rickert as Shirley
Pete the Pup as Petie
June 'Miss Crabtree' Marlowe as Miss Crabtree
May Wallace as Mrs. Cooper

Love Business is a Pathé release from 1931, one of the Our Gang / Little Rascals films directed by Robert F. McGowan.

Jackie has a huge crush on his teacher, Miss Crabtree, and can’t decide if he’s happy or worried when she takes a room in his house.  Chubby also has a crush on the teacher, and has been practicing his wooing technique in the theater in front of a cut-out of Greta Garbo.

Wheezer, happy to have the chance to torment his older brother Jackie, gives some love letters he’s found to Chubby so that Chubby can impress Miss Crabtree with his love language.  The usual problems arise as Jackie and Chubby compete with each other for the lovely Miss Crabtree’s affections.