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So This Is Love

1928·US
Director: Frank Capra
RomanceComedy

So This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp. After business hours, Jerry secretly takes boxing lessons, enabling him to knock the stuffings out of his burly rival Spike Mullins (Johnnie Walker). Jerry's newfound pugilistic skills wins him the affections of store clerk Hilda Jensen (Shirley Mason), who's just car-razy about "cave men." Filmed in a fast three weeks, So This is Love? was completed before Frank Capra's Matinee Idol but released afterward. Leading lady Shirley Mason was the sister of Viola Dana, who starred in Capra's initial Columbia effort, That Certain Thing.

So This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp. After business hours, Jerry secretly takes boxing lessons, enabling him to knock the stuffings out of his burly rival Spike Mullins (Johnnie Walker). Jerry's newfound pugilistic skills wins him the affections of store clerk Hilda Jensen (Shirley Mason), who's just car-razy about "cave men." Filmed in a fast three weeks, So This is Love? was completed before Frank Capra's Matinee Idol but released afterward. Leading lady Shirley Mason was the sister of Viola Dana, who starred in Capra's initial Columbia effort, That Certain Thing.

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Cast

Shirley Mason

Shirley Mason

Hilda Jenson

William Collier Jr.

William Collier Jr.

Jerry McGuire

Johnnie Walker

Johnnie Walker

Spike Mullins

Ernie Adams

Ernie Adams

Flash Tracy

Carl Gerard

Carl Gerard

Otto

William H. Strauss

William H. Strauss

Maison Katz

Jean Laverty

Jean Laverty

Mary Malone

Crew

Elmer Harris

writer

Ray June

cinematographer

Norman Springer

writer

Rex Taylor

writer

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