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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1397

So This Is Love?

192860 minUnited States

Synopsis

A dress designer decides that boxing will change the way people see him. Training in secret, he prepares to challenge a rival and impress the shop assistant whose affection he hopes to win.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 55:28
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Frank Capra · Public domain

Cast

Shirley Mason

William Collier Jr.

Johnnie Walker

DirectorsFrank Capra

Historical context

Frank Capra made the film for Harry Cohn at Columbia. Its romantic contest turns competing ideas of masculinity into the basis of a silent comedy.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Shirley Mason — Unknown photographer; URL: http://silentgents.com/indexBlueBook.html · Public domain
William Collier Jr. — Eugene Robert Richee · Public domain
Johnnie Walker — Johnnie Walker management · Public domain

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