Start Cheering

1938
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1h 18min

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Jimmy Durante, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Walter Connolly, Curly Howard, Gertrude Niesen, Joan Perry, Charles Starrett, and The Three Stooges in Start Cheering (1938)

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaFed up with movie life, film star Ted Crosley quits pictures to enroll in Midland College, much to the horror of his manager Sam Lewis and his stooge-friend Willie Gumbatz. Ted wishes to enr... Leggi tuttoFed up with movie life, film star Ted Crosley quits pictures to enroll in Midland College, much to the horror of his manager Sam Lewis and his stooge-friend Willie Gumbatz. Ted wishes to enroll in school under an assumed name but Sam, hoping to nip his school plans in the bud, ti... Leggi tuttoFed up with movie life, film star Ted Crosley quits pictures to enroll in Midland College, much to the horror of his manager Sam Lewis and his stooge-friend Willie Gumbatz. Ted wishes to enroll in school under an assumed name but Sam, hoping to nip his school plans in the bud, tips off the school and the press. En route, Ted has met and fallen in love with Jean Worthi... Leggi tutto

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The print Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has been showing since 1994 is probably a print shown in the UK, since an opening frame states "Grand National Pictures Ltd. presents Start Cheering". That company is a UK company which probably handled the UK distribution. Although the IMDb credits are based on that print, it differs markedly from the American version as listed in the AFI Catalogue. However, the print shown on TCM on 5 November 2021 and introduced by Dave Karger and Leonard Maltin has the usual "Columbia Pictures Corporation presents..." on the title card.

Citazioni
Peggy: Say, is that your nose or are you eating a banana?

Connessioni
References Tre ragazze in gamba (1936)

Colonne sonore
My Heaven on Earth
(1937)
Music by Samuel Pokrass (as Sam Pokrass) and Phil Baker
Lyrics by Charles Tobias
Sung by Gertrude Niesen (uncredited) and students
Also sung by Robert Paige (uncredited) and Joan Perry (uncredited)

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Gertrude Niesen and Hal Le Roy Steal the Show

Yet another one of those college-set musicals so popular in the 1930s. This one has a famous movie star (Charles Starrett) fed up with Hollywood and deciding to go to college. He enrolls at Midland College, but his manager and his assistant follow him. A dopey dean (Raymond Walburn) insists the movie star be on the football team so they can rake in the money from the publicity.

Jimmy Durante is the star here, as the assistant to the movie star's manager (Walter Connolly). He gets a few songs, but his presence grows wearying , especially when he intrudes and stops cold the terrific "Rockin' the Town" number.

Joan Perry plays the love interest (and dean's daughter). Also in the cast are Ernest Truex as the librarian, Chaz Chase as the paper-eating water boy, and Broderick Crawford as the football captain. The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Curly Howard, and Larry Fine) add a burst of life to a couple scenes. Minerva Urecal plays the sorority house mother, and Louis Prima is the band leader.

The high point of the film is the "Rockin' the Town" number sung by the underused Gertrude Niesen and featuring the equally underused Hal Le Roy as a dancing student. The music is hot and Niesen and Le Roy are just fantastic.