Love Business (1931)

Dorothy DeBorba: Echo

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• [aided by a larger-than-life-size Greta Garbo cutout at a movie theater, Chubby practices his romantic technique while quoting from an adult love letter; a little girl echoes but misquotes his studied lines] 

  Chubby : Oh, my darling, can you hear my pleas in my whispers?

  Echo : Darling, I hear the fleas in your whiskers.

  Chubby : [exasperated but continues]  If love is like a rose, I will pick my rose in a bud.

  Echo : If love is like a rose, I will stick my nose in the mud.

  Chubby : [pressing on]  My heart is filled with joy. I wanna trip and dance.

  Echo : My heart is filled with joy. I want to rip my pants.

  [Chubby finally gives up the effort]