Start Cheering
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.
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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 |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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
- Broderick Crawford as Biff Gordon
- The Three Stooges
- Vernon Dent as Empire Studios executive / Pops
- Edward LeSaint as First board overseer
- Lew Davis as Team doctor / Candy butcher
- Lucille Lund as Flossie
- Eddie Fetherston as Man at water fountain / man setting up microphone
- Jane Hamilton as Student
References
External links
- Start Cheering at IMDb
- Start Cheering at AllMovie
- Start Cheering at the TCM Movie Database
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