Stand Up and Cheer!

1934
PG
1h 8m

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A little girl's (Shirley Temple) toe-tapping musical numbers uplift the nation during the Depression in this charming classic that includes Temple's rendition of "Baby Take a Bow.A little girl's (Shirley Temple) toe-tapping musical numbers uplift the nation during the Depression in this charming classic that includes Temple's rendition of "Baby Take a Bow.A little girl's (Shirley Temple) toe-tapping musical numbers uplift the nation during the Depression in this charming classic that includes Temple's rendition of "Baby Take a Bow.

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Warner Baxter

Lawrence Cromwell

Madge Evans

Mary Adams

James Dunn

Jimmy Dugan

Sylvia Froos

Sylvia Froos

John Boles

John Boles

Arthur Byron

John Harly

Shirley Temple

Shirley Dugan

Ralph Morgan

Secretary to President

Jimmy Dallas

Boy Scout

Tess Gardella

Aunt Jemima
(as 'Aunt Jemima')

Frank Mitchell

Senator Danforth
(as Mitchell)

Jack Durant

Senator Short
(as Durant)

Dick Foran

Nick Foran
(as Nick Foran)

Nigel Bruce

Dinwiddle

John 'Skins' Miller

Hill-Billy
(as 'Skins' Miller)

Stepin Fetchit

George Bernard Shaw

Jean Allen

Dancer
(uncredited)

Dorothy Andre

Dancer
(uncredited)

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Trivia
For the "Baby, Take a Bow" number with James Dunn, the studio felt it would be easier for Shirley Temple to do the dance she had done at her audition rather than learn a new one, so Temple spent her first day on the set giving Dunn dancing lessons.

Quotes
Lawrence Cromwell: Now, Miss Monroe...
Mary Adams: Er, Adams.
Lawrence Cromwell: Oh, yes, step here a minute, will you, please... something I want to show you. There's one phase in this amusement campaign which I think you ought to understand. The zones in...
[overcome by her good looks, he stops]
Lawrence Cromwell: You're beautiful.
Mary Adams: Ah, of course I'm not.
Lawrence Cromwell: What's that?
Mary Adams: I said I'm not beautiful.
Lawrence Cromwell: Young woman, you're talking to Lawrence Cromwell... Lawrence Cromwell, the world's recognized authority on feminine beauty and charm. Do you mean to stand there and question my judgment on the subject of beauty? Do you? Do you?
Mary Adams: Oh, no, no, I wasn't...
Lawrence Cromwell: Oh, but you DID question it. Now, you listen to me: when Lawrence Cromwell says a girl's beautiful, she's BEAUTIFUL, do you understand? Ha, the very idea! I demand an apology. Your personality definitely puts you in Class 10-A, Department B, with a double-X rating in my card index system. And, my system is the pre-eminent beauty catalogue of today.
[sizing her up at a glance]
Lawrence Cromwell: Height, 5 foot 4... weight, 116... bust, 34... waist, 26... hips, 36... calf, 12 and 1/2... ankle, 7. Questioning my judgement! Ha, ha, that is good.
Mary Adams: I'm really awfully sorry, Mr. Cromwell.
Lawrence Cromwell: Never mind, never mind, just... just let it be a lesson to you.

Alternate versions
Different versions of this film exist, with various running times between 68 and 81 minutes. Some prints have deleted demeaning & outdated cultural depictions of African Americans that are offensive to modern audiences, including scenes with _Stepin Fetchit_ and _Tess Gardella_ in blackface as "Aunt Jemima".

Connections
Featured in Young People (1940)

Soundtracks
Stand Up And Cheer!
(1934) (uncredited)
Lyrics and Music by Lew Brown and Harry Akst
Sung by over the end credits
Instrumental over the title sequence and beginning credits
c. 1934 Movietone Music Corportation

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6/10

Original concept but rather tedious

A musical with a short running time and the original concept of a Broadway producer being appointed as the secretary of amusement by the U.S president . This becomes an excuse for a series of song and dance and cabaret skits with a loose plot which includes a cursory love story and some political skullduggery. Most of the song and dance numbers are tedious but it is interesting to see an early appearance from Shirley Temple. The comedy skits are rather better with Mitchell and Durant doing some wonderful acrobatics and Nigel Bruce, 14th billed as Dinwiddie, being droll, though his appearances are disappointingly fleeting (apparently there are 12 minutes lost from the original cut). Stepin Fetchit's antics will divide modern audiences in this P.C age!