So This Is Love (1928)
60 min
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.
- Release date
- February 6, 1928
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Shirley Mason as Hilda Jenson
- William Collier Jr. as Jerry McGuire
- Johnnie Walker as Spike Mullins
- Ernie Adams as Flash Tracy
- Carl Gerard as Otto
- William H. Strauss as Maison Katz
- Jean Laverty as Mary Malone
- Morgan Brown as Boxing Match Spectator
- Ernest Hilliard as Minor Role
- Al Kunde as Ball Guest
Crew
- Frank Capra · Director
- Norman Springer · Writer
- Rex Taylor · Writer
- Elmer Harris · Writer
- Harry Cohn · Producer
- Ray June · Cinematographer
- Arthur Roberts · Editor