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Maybe It's Love

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Original title

Maybe It's Loveaka

AKA

Eleven Men and a Girl

Year

1930

Running time

72 min.

Country

United States

Director

William A. Wellman

Screenwriter

Joseph Jackson, Darryl F. Zanuck. Play: George Ade

Cast

Music

Erno Rapee, Louis Silvers

Cinematography

Robert Kurrle (B&W)

Producer

Warner Bros.

Genre

Comedy. Romance | Sports

Synopsis

Maybe It's Love is one of the many college football musicals which bred like minks in the early talkie era. A very young Joan Bennett tops the cast as Nan Sheffield, the daughter of a college president (George Irving). The nominal leading man is Tommy Nelson (James Hall), the black-sheep son of a wealthy alumnus (Anders Randolph). Though Nelson is an ace football player, President Sheffield refuses to enroll the boy because of his bad reputation, whereupon Tommy's father withdraws his financial backing and bars his son from ever setting foot on Sheffield's campus. Falling in love with Nan, Tommy signs up with the college under an assumed name, giving up his wastrel ways to lead the football team to victory. Joe E. Brown steals the show as Speed Hanson, a goofy gridiron star who emits a loud and long yell whenever scoring a touchdown (this was, in fact, the first film in which Brown's famous "Yeeeeowww" was heard -- but certainly not the last). The remaining footballers are played by the members of the real-life 1929 All-American team. Incidentally, screenwriter "Mark Canfield" was actually a pseudonymous Darryl F. Zanuck. To avoid confusion with a later, unrelated film of the same title, Maybe It's Love was rechristened Eleven Men and a Girl for television showings.

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Maybe It's Love

1930

William A. Wellman