Start Cheering
Appearance
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Directed by | Albert S. Rogell |
Written by | Eugene Solow Richard Wormser Philip Rapp Corey Ford |
Produced by | Nat Perrin |
Starring | Jimmy Durante Walter Connolly Charles Starrett Joan Perry Broderick Crawford Craig E. Earle The Three Stooges Louis Prima Chaz Chase Hal Le Roy |
Cinematography | Joseph Walker |
Edited by | Gene Havlick |
Music by | Morris W. Stoloff |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Start Cheering is a 1938 musical motion picture directed by Albert S. Rogell and starring Jimmy Durante, Walter Connolly and Joan Perry. It is best remembered today for a cameo appearance by The Three Stooges (Curly Howard, Moe Howard and Larry Fine), who were Columbia Pictures' short subject headliners at the time, as Campus Firemen.[1] The film's choreography was by Danny Dare.
Premise
Film star Ted Crosley (Charles Starrett) is fed up with Hollywood and quits the movies to enroll in college under a fake name. While Ted tries to fit in at academia, his frustrated managers (Walter Connolly, Jimmy Durante) try to have him expelled from the college in order for him to resume his Hollywood career.
Cast
- Jimmy Durante as Willie Gumbatz
- Walter Connolly as Sam Lewis
- Joan Perry as Jean Worthington
- Charles Starrett as Ted Crosley
- Craig E. Earle as Professor Quiz (as Professor Quiz)
- Gertrude Niesen as Sarah
- Raymond Walburn as Dean Worthington
See also
References
External links
- Start Cheering at IMDb
- Start Cheering at AllMovie
- Start Cheering at the TCM Movie Database
Categories:
- 1938 films
- 1930s musical comedy films
- 1930s romantic comedy films
- American musical comedy films
- American romantic comedy films
- American films
- American romantic musical films
- American black-and-white films
- Columbia Pictures films
- English-language films
- Films about actors
- Films about education
- Films directed by Albert S. Rogell
- Films set in universities and colleges
- The Three Stooges films
- 1930s romantic musical films
- 1938 comedy films
- Romantic musical film stubs