Varsity Show (1937)
- Starring:
- Dick Powell, Fred Waring, (more)
- Director(s):
- William Keighley
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Varsity Show
If you're wondering which Warners musical featured the songs "Old King Cole" and "Have You Got Any Castles?," we refer you to Varsity Show. Dick Powell stars as a musical producer, called back to his alma mater to stage the annual college variety show. Uptight dean Walter Catlett is dead set against Powell's "scandalous" form of entertainment. The college kids conspire with Powell to stage their show in an empty Broadway theatre during the off-season. Turns out that Powell has Busby Berkeley under contract; well, he doesn't really, but it is Berkeley who stages the "big show" finale, in a spectacular fashion that would be impossible for any stage, college or professional. Among the costars of Varsity Show are Rosemary Lane as the ingenue, Ted Healy (in his last screen appearance) as comic relief, and Our Gang's "Spanky," here billed more formally under his real name, George McFarland. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 80 mins
Complete Cast of Varsity Show
- Dick Powell - Charles "Chuck" Daly
- Priscilla Lane - Betty Bradley
- Ted Healy - William Williams
- Lee Dixon - Johnny "Rubberlegs" Stevens
- Halliwell Hobbes - Dean Meredith
- Emma Dunn - Mrs. Smith
- Sterling Holloway - Trout
- Ben Welden - Hammer
- Carole Landis - Bit Part
- Fred Waring - Ernie Mason
- Walter Catlett - Prof. Sylvester Biddle
- Rosemary Lane - Barbara "Babs" Steward
- Mabel Todd - Cuddles
- Edward S. Brophy - Mike Barclay
- Buck and Bubbles - Themselves
- Roy Atwell - Prof. Washburn
- Johnnie Davis - Buzz Bolton
- George "Spanky" McFarland - Hap
- Director(s):
- William Keighley
- Writer(s):
- Warren B. Duff, Sig Herzig, Jerry Wald
- Producer(s):
- Louis Edelman
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