Maybe It's Love

1930
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1h 12m

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Joan Bennett, Bill Banker, Joe E. Brown, George Gibson, Howard Harpster, Kenneth Haycraft, Ray Montgomery, Tim Moynihan, Otto Pommerening, Russell Saunders, Wear Schoonover, Paul Scull, and Red Sleight in Maybe It's Love (1930)

A college football player (Joe E. Brown) persuades a beautiful young woman (Joan Bennett) to individually flirt with an entire team of All-American football players, in order to entice them ... Read allA college football player (Joe E. Brown) persuades a beautiful young woman (Joan Bennett) to individually flirt with an entire team of All-American football players, in order to entice them over to her college. But the players get angry and threaten to walk out when they find out... Read allA college football player (Joe E. Brown) persuades a beautiful young woman (Joan Bennett) to individually flirt with an entire team of All-American football players, in order to entice them over to her college. But the players get angry and threaten to walk out when they find out that they have been fooled, and they get even madder when they discover that she has actu... Read all

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Trivia
This was re-titled Eleven Men and a Girl when it was sold to television in 1956, in order to avoid confusion with another WB film of the same name, Maybe It's Love (1935), and retains this title today when shown on Turner Classic Movies.

Goofs
At around 20 mins, Nan and a football player tip over in a canoe and are completely submerged. Then they swim to shore and upon exiting the water, Nan's hair is almost totally dry with only the tips wet.

Quotes
Nan: It's alcohol! That's gotten you kicked out of a dozen colleges.
Tommy: It's got a kick, all right.

Crazy credits
Joe E. Brown's character is called "Yates" in the credits, but is always referred to as Speed Hanson in the dialogue. Similarly, Sumner Getchell is billed as "Whiskers" but is called only Ned, and George Irving is credited as "College Professor," but is actually President Sheffield of the college.

Connections
Version of The College Widow (1915)

Soundtracks
Maybe It's Love
(1930) (uncredited)
Music by Archie Gottler and George W. Meyer
Lyrics by Sidney D. Mitchell
Sung by Joan Bennett and then by James Hall
Also played on a record
Also sung by the team

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3/10

Joan Bennett Gets Wet

To help her college's faltering football team, beautiful Joan Bennett (Nan) must seduce hunky football players into transferring to her school. It's the bright idea of gay friend Joe E. Brown (Yates). Will the young men discover each other? Will Ms. Bennett find true love among them? Will Upton win the "Big Game"?

"Maybe It's Love / Eleven Men and a Girl" is interesting in that it features Bennett and Brown on their way to becoming successful in the "talkies". They aren't there yet - Bennett is unspectacular and Brown's shrieks are more annoying than funny; later, he would successfully refine his comic persona. The best scene is early on, when Bennett and one of her football players topple their canoe, and emerge soaking wet.

*** Maybe It's Love (1930) William A. Wellman ~ Joan Bennett, Joe E. Brown, James Hall