So This Is Love

Jerry designs dresses and is tired of being treated as harmless, so he takes boxing lessons in secret, flattens the neighbourhood tough who has been courting Hilda, and wins the girl who said she wanted a caveman. Frank Capra, in his first months at Columbia, shot it in under three weeks, working the gag-and-payoff rhythm he had learned from Sennett and Langdon on a story about respectability. Small, quick and cheerful, and useful for seeing what he had before he had a style. William Collier Jr. and Shirley Mason. 1928.