Start Cheering (1938)
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Start Cheering is Columbia Pictures' idea of a college musical: Practically everyone in the cast is past the age of 30. Charles Starrett plays a movie star who wearies of Hollywood and decides to get a college education. He enrolls incognito in a small university, much to the discomfort of his managers Walter Connolly and Jimmy Durante. Durante heads for college himself, hoping to sabotage Starrett's plans and bring him back before the cameras. While Jimmy Durante is saddled with inferior material, the film gives full head to such guest stars as bandleader Louis Prima, vaudevillian Chaz Chase (who had a cigar-eating act), radio's Professor Quiz (Dr. Craig E. Earle), and Columbia's short-subject headliners The Three Stooges (with Curly!) ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Jimmy Durante - Willie Gumbatz
- Charles Starrett - Ted Crosley
- Broderick Crawford - Butch
- Arthur Loft - Producer
- Phil Baker
- Howard Hickman - Dr. Fosdick
- Louis Prima
- Raymond Walburn - Dean Worthington
- Minerva Urecal - Miss Grimley
- Gene Morgan - Coach Burns
- Arthur Hoyt
- Larry Fine - Stooge
- Joan Perry - Jean Worthington
- Gertrude Niesen - Julie
- Hal Le Roy - Hal
- Ernest Truex - Blodgett
- Virginia Dale - Mabel
- Nick Lukats
- Jimmy Wallington - Announcer
- Romo Vincent - Fatso
- Louise Stanley - Flo
- Moe Howard - Stooge
- Curly Howard - Fireman
- Walter Connolly - Sam Lewis
- Director(s):
- Albert Rogell
- Writer(s):
- Corey Ford, Philip Rapp, Eugene Solow
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