College Holiday (1936)
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The quaint genetic theories of the 1930s are satirized in College Holiday. Dotty matron Mary Boland runs a ramshackle summer resort, opening her doors to college students of both sexes--but only those collegiates with extra-special physical and mental skills. She hopes to encourage these select co-eds to meet and mate, then produce a breed of "perfect" children. What Boland doesn't count on is the supremacy of the Heart over Science. Engagingly silly, College Holiday devotes generous screen space to some of the biggest comic talents of the 1930s: Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye and Ben Blue. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jack Benny, Gracie Allen, (more)
- Director(s):
- Frank Tuttle
Synopsis of College Holiday
The quaint genetic theories of the 1930s are satirized in College Holiday. Dotty matron Mary Boland runs a ramshackle summer resort, opening her doors to college students of both sexes--but only those collegiates with extra-special physical and mental skills. She hopes to encourage these select co-eds to meet and mate, then produce a breed of "perfect" children. What Boland doesn't count on is the supremacy of the Heart over Science. Engagingly silly, College Holiday devotes generous screen space to some of the biggest comic talents of the 1930s: Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye and Ben Blue. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of College Holiday
- Jack Benny - J. Davis Bowster
- Mary Boland - Carola Gaye
- Marsha Hunt - Sylvia Smith
- Johnny Downs - Johnny Jones
- Louis Da Pron - Barry Taylor
- Etienne Girardot - Prof. Hercules Dove
- Margaret Seddon - Mrs. Schloggenheimer
- Jed Prouty - Sheriff
- Howard Mitchell - Deputy
- Nick Lukats - Wisconsin
- Harry Hayden - Mr. Smith
- Earl Pingree - Policeman
- Dorothy White - Dancer
- Eddie Foy, Jr. - Dancer
- Richard Carle - Judge Bent
- Leif Erickson - Dick Winters
- Jack Chapin - Colgate
- Gracie Allen - Calliope Dove
- Martha Raye - Daisy Schloggenheimer
- Eleanore Whitney - Eleanor Wayne
- Olympe Bradna - Felice L'Hommedieu
- Ben Blue - Stage Hand
- Charles Arnt - Clerk
- Marjorie Reynolds - Dancer
- Spec O'Donnell - Lafayette
- Buddy Messinger - Minstrel
- Dorothy Lamour - Coed
- The California Collegians - Themselves
- Joseph J. Franz
- Fred "Snowflake" Toones - Porter
- George Burns - George Hymen
- Ellen Drew - Student
- Nora Cecil - Miss Elkins
- Director(s):
- Frank Tuttle
- Writer(s):
- Jay Gorney, Harlan Ware, J.P. McEvoy
- Producer(s):
- Harlan Thompson
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