Warner's gimmick for this football romance was the presence of the 1930 All American football team - not the reteaming of Joe E. Brown and Laura Lee (from the earlier "Top Speed") or the rising new star, Joan Bennett.
The plot (such as it is) has Speed Hanson (Brown), the standout footballer for tiny Upton College, conspire with studious Nan Sheffield (Bennett, with glasses no less), daughter of the school president, to lure the nation's best players there, using her "feminine wiles"!! This is to please the Upton trustees who will oust Nan's father if the college loses the big game for the 13th straight year!!
"Maybe it's love but it isn't college with Joan Bennett wandering at will into men's dormitories" so said the Photoplay review but all in all they seemed to like it. With her glasses off Nan takes to flirting like a duck to water, making the players dizzy with her little girl lost routine and of course her slightly off key singing of "Maybe It's Love" (which is reprised 5 times during the movie).
When she meets Tommy Nelson (James Hall), a star player whose father is determined he will not go to Upton, all pretense is gone but when he overhears two of the other footballers getting hot and bothered about his Nan, he realises they have all been played for chumps. Of course, after she is forced to confess her antics and been forgiven, the boy's dormitory becomes a setting for a medley of the movie's songs - "Maybe It's Love", the very catchy "All American" and a Busby Berkeley like finale, complete with overhead camera work for "Keep It Up for Upton". That's why I just love these early musicals, if only real life was so nice and simple!!
I have read that when movies were first shown on TV, they were heavily edited to fit in commercial breaks into their allotted time span. I am sure that is what happened with this movie. Laura Lee, who had been teamed with Joe E. Brown in "Top Speed" and received more than her fair share of musical numbers (at the expense of star Bernice Clair) was only given a minute of screen time in "Maybe It's Love". Odd, especially when she was fourth billed and in the earlier movie she and Brown were given a couple of duets which proved to be the hit of the movie. Apparently in the original "Maybe It's Love" screenplay there are two Brown/Lee numbers - "I Love to Do It" and "All American" (which deserved more than the chorus it was given). Who knows what happened to those numbers but they would have been a welcome relief. Brown provided some funny sequences but he didn't get to sing and the film belonged to the love birds - Joan Bennett and James Hall.
The plot (such as it is) has Speed Hanson (Brown), the standout footballer for tiny Upton College, conspire with studious Nan Sheffield (Bennett, with glasses no less), daughter of the school president, to lure the nation's best players there, using her "feminine wiles"!! This is to please the Upton trustees who will oust Nan's father if the college loses the big game for the 13th straight year!!
"Maybe it's love but it isn't college with Joan Bennett wandering at will into men's dormitories" so said the Photoplay review but all in all they seemed to like it. With her glasses off Nan takes to flirting like a duck to water, making the players dizzy with her little girl lost routine and of course her slightly off key singing of "Maybe It's Love" (which is reprised 5 times during the movie).
When she meets Tommy Nelson (James Hall), a star player whose father is determined he will not go to Upton, all pretense is gone but when he overhears two of the other footballers getting hot and bothered about his Nan, he realises they have all been played for chumps. Of course, after she is forced to confess her antics and been forgiven, the boy's dormitory becomes a setting for a medley of the movie's songs - "Maybe It's Love", the very catchy "All American" and a Busby Berkeley like finale, complete with overhead camera work for "Keep It Up for Upton". That's why I just love these early musicals, if only real life was so nice and simple!!
I have read that when movies were first shown on TV, they were heavily edited to fit in commercial breaks into their allotted time span. I am sure that is what happened with this movie. Laura Lee, who had been teamed with Joe E. Brown in "Top Speed" and received more than her fair share of musical numbers (at the expense of star Bernice Clair) was only given a minute of screen time in "Maybe It's Love". Odd, especially when she was fourth billed and in the earlier movie she and Brown were given a couple of duets which proved to be the hit of the movie. Apparently in the original "Maybe It's Love" screenplay there are two Brown/Lee numbers - "I Love to Do It" and "All American" (which deserved more than the chorus it was given). Who knows what happened to those numbers but they would have been a welcome relief. Brown provided some funny sequences but he didn't get to sing and the film belonged to the love birds - Joan Bennett and James Hall.