# Love Business

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{{short description|1931 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Love Business
| image          = OURGANG lovebusiness 1930.jpg
| caption        = Film poster
| director       = [Robert F. McGowan](/source/Robert_F._McGowan)
| producer       = Robert F. McGowan<br>[Hal Roach](/source/Hal_Roach)
| writer         = [H. M. Walker](/source/H._M._Walker)
| narrator       =
| starring       =
| music          = [Leroy Shield](/source/Leroy_Shield)<br>[Marvin Hatley](/source/Marvin_Hatley)
| cinematography = [Art Lloyd](/source/Art_Lloyd)
| editing        = [Richard C. Currier](/source/Richard_C._Currier)
| distributor    = [MGM](/source/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
| released       = {{film date|1931|2|14}}
| runtime        = 20:12
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         =
}}

'''''Love Business''''' is a 1931 ''[Our Gang](/source/Our_Gang)'' [short](/source/short_subject) [comedy film](/source/comedy_film) directed by [Robert F. McGowan](/source/Robert_F._McGowan).<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/225653/Love-Business/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110509202029/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/225653/Love-Business/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 9, 2011 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) |author=Hal Erickson |title=New York Times: Love Business |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2011 |accessdate=September 19, 2008}}</ref> It was the 104th ''Our Gang'' short to be released.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Maltin |first1=Leonard |last2=Bann |first2=Richard W. |title=Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals |date=1977 |publisher=Crown Publishers |pages=123–125 |isbn=978-0-517-52675-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/ourganglifetimes0000malt/page/122/mode/2up |access-date=3 March 2024}}</ref>

==Plot==
thumb|thumbtime=15|''Love Business'' (1931)
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==
Most of the schoolyard scenes were edited from ''[The Little Rascals](/source/Our_Gang)'' television prints in 1971 due to stereotyping of African-Americans, but were reinstated in the 1990s home video market.{{cn|date=January 2024}}

==Cast==

===The Gang===
* [Jackie Cooper](/source/Jackie_Cooper) as Jackie Cooper
* [Norman Chaney](/source/Norman_Chaney) as  Norman 'Chubby'
* [Matthew Beard](/source/Matthew_Beard_(American_actor)) as Stymie
* [Dorothy DeBorba](/source/Dorothy_DeBorba) as Dorothy 'Echo'
* [Allen Hoskins](/source/Allen_Hoskins) as Farina
* [Bobby Hutchins](/source/Bobby_Hutchins) as Wheezer Cooper
* [Mary Ann Jackson](/source/Mary_Ann_Jackson) as Mary Ann Cooper
* [Shirley Jean Rickert](/source/Shirley_Jean_Rickert) as Shirley
* [Donald Haines](/source/Donald_Haines) as Donald
* [Bobby Young](/source/Clifton_Young) as Bonedust
* [Pete the Pup](/source/Pete_the_Pup) as himself

===Additional cast===
* [June Marlowe](/source/June_Marlowe) as Miss June Crabtree
* [May Wallace](/source/May_Wallace) as May Wallace Cooper, Jackie's mother
* Betty Mae And Beverly Crane as Title Speakers
* [Baldwin Cooke](/source/Baldwin_Cooke) as Undetermined role

==See also==
* [''Our Gang'' filmography](/source/Our_Gang_filmography)

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0022088|title=Love Business}}

Category:1931 films
Category:Films directed by Robert F. McGowan
Category:Hal Roach Studios short films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Our Gang films
Category:1931 comedy films
Category:Films with screenplays by H. M. Walker
Category:1931 short films
Category:1931 American films
Category:Films scored by Marvin Hatley
Category:Films scored by Leroy Shield
Category:1931 English-language films

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