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A Blog For Thelma Todd Thelma Todd was a star of silent movies and later the talkies. She is remembered as much today for her mysterious death as she is for her films. In this blog, we take a look at Thelma Todd, her movies, and various commentaries.
Showing posts with label Miss Crabtree. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miss Crabtree. Show all posts
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Friday, July 11, 2014
SHIVER MY TIMBERS Press Sheet
SHIVER MY TIMBERS is an Our Gang comedy made in 1931, with June Marlowe as "Miss Crabtree". Here is a press sheet for this movie.
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READIN' AN' WRITIN' Press Sheet
READIN' AN' WRITIN' is an Our Gang comedy from 1932 with June Marlowe as "Miss Crabtree". Here is a press sheet for this film.
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Monday, May 12, 2014
INSIDE THE CLUBHOUSE - 1984 Our Gang Documentary
INSIDE THE CLUBHOUSE is a documentary about the Our Gang comedies that was made in 1984. It tells the history of the people involved in that series up until that point, but many of the people mentioned as being alive at that time have since died.
Both June Marlow and Rosina Lawrence are seen here as the gang's teachers. Rosina Lawrence would also work with Lyda Roberti and Patsy Kelly in their series as well as Laurel and Hardy.
Mickey Daniels:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Daniels
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Thursday, February 27, 2014
LOVE BUSINESS
One of June Marlowe's films with the gang was LOVE BUSINESS. Which I think of as being related to the Thelma Todd series.
Love Business
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Love Business | |
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| Directed by | Robert F. McGowan |
| Produced by | Robert F. McGowan Hal Roach |
| Written by | H. M. Walker |
| Music by | Leroy Shield Marvin Hatley |
| Cinematography | Art Lloyd |
| Editing by | Richard C. Currier |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release dates |
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| Running time | 20:12 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Love Business is a 1931 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan.[1] It was the 104th (16th talking episode) Our Gang short that was released.
Plot
Jackie is hopelessly in love with Miss Crabtree. 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 also is in love with Miss Crabtree and practices kissing her on an oversized cardboard statue of Greta Garbo. Then at school, Wheezer tells Jackie, Mary Ann, Chubby, Farina, Donald, and Bonedust that Miss Crabtree was 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.
Note
Most of the schoolyard scenes were edited out of the Little Rascals television print in 1971 due to stereotyping of African-Americans but reinstated in 1990s home video and in 2001 AMC showings.
Cast
- Jackie Cooper - Jackie Cooper
- Norman Chaney - Norman 'Chubby'
- Bobby Hutchins - Wheezer Cooper
- Mary Ann Jackson - Mary Ann Cooper
- Allen Hoskins - Farina
- Matthew Beard - Stymie
- Dorothy DeBorba - Dorothy 'Echo'
- Donald Haines - Donald
- Clifton Young - Bonedust
- Shirley Jean Rickert - Shirley
- Pete the Pup - Petie
- June Marlowe - Miss June Crabtree
- May Wallace - May Wallace Cooper, Jackie's mother
See also
References
- Jump up ^ "New York Times: Love Business". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-09-19.
External links
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All the boys in the gang were supposed to have a crush on Miss Crabtree, which I guess was the basis of the story in this episode. I tend to think of Miss Crabtree as always having been there, but actually she was only in the series for a fairly short time. Rosina Lawrence would later play another pretty teacher in the series.
Jackie Cooper, June "Miss Crabtree" Marlowe, Shirley Jean Rickert, Norman "Chubby" Chaney, and Dorothy DeBorba.
Chubby practices kissing on a cardboard cutout of Greta Garbo in front of the theater.
His actions are echoed in the background by a photo of Charley Chase embracing Thelma Todd.
LOVE BUSINESS was followed by LOVE FEVER, a "Boy Friends" comedy in which the girls' boyfriends all fell for Thelma Todd. This film was then followed by LET'S DO THINGS, the first Zasu Pitts and Thelma Todd comedy. Which also had the "boy friends" and their girl friends from that series in cameo appearances.
But then, people are said to have thought of the Hal Roach studio as all being like one big family.
Hal Roach experimented with spoken titles at the beginning of his films in place of the usual print variety. Betty Mae and Beverly Crane voiced the credits for several of his comedies in this period, including LOVE BUSINESS and LOVE FEVER.
Watch LOVE BUSINESS:
LOVE BUSINESS:
https://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-4259/episodes/103281
Our Gang:
http://theluckycorner.com/
http://www.picking.com/og-main.html
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
June Marlowe
June Marlowe played "Miss Crabtree", Our Gang's schoolteacher. But there's more to her career.
June Marlowe
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| June Marlowe | |
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| Born | Gisela Valaria Goetten November 6, 1903 St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | March 10, 1984 (aged 80) Burbank, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1923–1932 |
| Spouse(s) | Rodney Sprigg |
Career
Marlowe was born Gisela Valaria Goetten of German parents in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She was a prolific actress in silent films during the 1920s, appearing in films opposite John Barrymore and Rin Tin Tin. She was one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1925. Her career did well until the introduction of talking pictures. Marlowe did not make an easy transition, and by 1930 she was starting to drift away from acting.Miss Crabtree
By chance, she happened to meet Our Gang director Robert F. McGowan one day in a Los Angeles, California, department store. McGowan was searching for an actress to portray the schoolteacher in the Our Gang series of children's comedies. After producer Hal Roach suggested that brunette Marlowe don a blonde wig to match the hair of the lead kid in the series, Jackie Cooper, she was given the part of Miss Crabtree.
After Cooper left Our Gang in 1931 to appear in MGM features, Marlowe's Miss Crabtree character was used in only two more shorts, 1931's Shiver My Timbers and 1932's Readin' and Writin'.
In 1933, Marlowe married Hollywood businessman Rodney Sprigg and retired from motion pictures to become a housewife.
Death
In her later years, she suffered from Parkinson's disease, dying from complications caused by it on March 10, 1984.Marlowe was originally buried at the San Fernando Mission Cemetery but was interred in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles in 2002.
External links
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to June Marlowe. |
- June Marlowe at the Internet Movie Database
- June Marlowe at Find a Grave (original burial site)
- June Marlowe at Find a Grave
- Teacher's Pet: The June Marlowe Website
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I liked June Marlowe in Our Gang comedies and Laurel and Hardy's PARDON US, but I don't remember her from much of anything else. She did work with Charlie Chase.
With the gang.
June Marlowe:
http://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/for-the-love-of-miss-crabtree/
http://ourgang.wikia.com/wiki/June_Marlowe
http://ourclassicpast.blogspot.com/2012_02_01_archive.html
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Little Rascals - Dell Four Color #674
Comic book adventures of famous comedians frequently leave out the pretty girls they worked with in the movies. But the "Pretty Teacher" in a couple of the last stories here could be June Marlowe's "Miss Crabtree" ( or "Miss Lawrence", but the short hair the character has reminds me of Miss Crabtree. )
And here's June Marlowe.
June Marlowe:
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