The Band Plays On (1934)
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Robert Young had to be the busiest leading man in Hollywood in 1934. He appeared in no fewer than nine pictures, four of them at his home studio of MGM. The Band Plays On features Young as one of four close pals, who have grown up together and are now college football champs known as "The Four Bombers". So inseparable are these chums that, when one is injured in a car accident, the remaining three quit the team. But everyone is back on the field for the inevitable Big Game, including Young, who of course scores the winning T.D. Robert Young plays a football star as realistically as he'd played a baseball star in the earlier Death on the Diamond (34)--meaning that the film relies a heavily on stunt doubles and process screens. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Robert Young - Tony Ferrera
- Betty Furness - Kitty
- Ted Healy - Joe
- Russell Hardie - Mike
- Robert Livingston - Bob Stone
- David Durand - Tony as a Child
- Beaudine Anderson - Mike as a Child
- Henry Kolker - Professor Hackett
- Stuart Erwin - Stuffy
- Leo Carrillo - Angelo
- Preston S. Foster - Howdy
- William Tannen - Rosy
- Norman Phillips - Stuffy as a Child
- Sidney Miller - Rosy as a Child
- Betty Jane Graham - Kitty as a Child
- Edward Gargan
- Director(s):
- Russell Mack
- Writer(s):
- Harvey Harris Gates, Ralph Spence, Bernard Schubert
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