College Rhythm
1934 film by Norman Taurog
- Walter DeLeon
- Francis Martin
- John McDermott
Mary Brian
Joe Penner
- Ted Tetzlaff
- Leo Tover
- Edward Dmytryk
- LeRoy Stone
Production
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Paramount Pictures
Release date
- November 23, 1934 (1934-11-23) (United States)
Running time
College Rhythm is a 1934 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Jack Oakie, Mary Brian, and Joe Penner. The budget was $537,000. Filming started August 16, 1934.[1]
Plot
Cocky college football star Francis Finnegan has his eye on the attractive Gloria van Dayham, as does his rival, Larry Stacey.
Francis gets a job in a department store owned by Stacey's father, where salesgirl June Cort develops an attraction to him. Finnegan proposes that Stacey's store sponsor a football team, which causes rival shop owner Whimple to do likewise. The team's head cheerleader, Mimi, falls for team mascot Joe, meanwhile, and everybody pairs off with the perfect partner after the big game.
Cast
- Jack Oakie as Finnegan
- Joe Penner as Joe
- Lanny Ross as Larry
- Helen Mack as June Cort
- Mary Brian as Gloria
- Lyda Roberti as Mimi
- Franklin Pangborn as Peabody
- Dean Jagger as Coach Robbins
- George Barbier as J. P. Stacey
- Robert McWade as Whimple
See also
References
- ^ Michael A. Hoey, Elvis' Favorite Director: The Amazing 52-Film Career of Norman Taurog, Bear Manor Media (2013).
External links
- College Rhythm at IMDb
; accessed September 13, 2015 - College Rhythm at AllMovie
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Films directed by Norman Taurog
- Lucky Boy (1929)
- The Diplomats (1929)
- In Holland (1929)
- The Medicine Men (1929)
- Troopers Three (1930)
- Sunny Skies (1930)
- Hot Curves (1930)
- Follow the Leader (1930)
- Finn and Hattie (1931)
- Skippy (1931)
- Forbidden Adventure (1931)
- Huckleberry Finn (1931)
- Sooky (1931)
- Hold 'Em Jail (1932)
- The Phantom President (1932)
- If I Had a Million (segments "Prologue" and "Epilogue", 1932)
- A Bedtime Story (1933)
- The Way to Love (1933)
- We're Not Dressing (1934)
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)
- College Rhythm (1934)
- The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1936)
- Strike Me Pink (1936)
- Rhythm on the Range (1936)
- Reunion (1936)
- Fifty Roads to Town (1937)
- You Can't Have Everything (1937)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
- Mad About Music (1938)
- Boys Town (1938)
- The Girl Downstairs (1938)
- Lucky Night (1939)
- Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
- Young Tom Edison (1940)
- Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
- Men of Boys Town (1941)
- Design for Scandal (1941)
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- Girl Crazy (1943)
- The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
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- The Bride Goes Wild (1948)
- Big City (1948)
- Words and Music (1948)
- That Midnight Kiss (1949)
- Please Believe Me (1950)
- The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
- Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
- Rich, Young and Pretty (1951)
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- The Birds and the Bees (1956)
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- Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)
- Visit to a Small Planet (1960)
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- Blue Hawaii (1961)
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- It Happened at the World's Fair (1962)
- Palm Springs Weekend (1963)
- Tickle Me (1965)
- Sergeant Deadhead (1965)
- Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
- Spinout (1966)
- Double Trouble (1967)
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- Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
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