There are plenty of malapropisms in the best of the Miss Crabtree episodes where Jackie and Chubby both admit crushes on her, creating a very funny situation when she moves in with Jackie's family. Chubby, kissing a movie theater standee of Greta Garbo (pretending that she's June Marlowe's Miss Crabtree), reciting love sonnets while the hidden Dorothy DeBorba (as Echo!) repeats an alternate version. They continuously get funnier, and so does this entry. "I'm a dunkin' fool!" Stymie says adorably (referring to dunking bread at dinner), then misinterprets "eticate" for "eat a cat", followed by Mary Ann's hysterically twisted grimaces upon eating tainted soup. Chubby's visit with Miss Crabtree is hysterically interrupted by jealous Jackie and almost gets Wheezer in trouble. Everything in this episode is picture perfect.
Review of Love Business
Love Business
(1931)
Probably the most adult of the early talkies, and the most intelligent!
14 November 2019
Warning: Spoilers