The Under-Pup (1939)
- Starring:
- Gloria Jean, Robert Cummings, (more)
- Director(s):
- Richard Wallace
Synopsis of The Under-Pup
The Under-Pup served to introduce Universal's new preteen songstress--and potential Deanna Durbin replacement--Gloria Jean. Producer Joe Pasternak sagaciously based the leading character on Jean herself: A shy, self-effacing 11 year old girl, thrust into a glamorous lifestyle beyond her ken. She plays a small-town thrush who wins a music scholarship to a fancy Interlochen-style music camp. Her rich classmates snub Jean at first, but she wins them over with her indefatigable good spirits and her angelic singing voice. While The Under-Pup made Gloria Jean a star, she never did become the new Deanna Durbin as planned--partly because the old Deanna Durbin still had a decade's worth of movies left in her. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Under-Pup
- Gloria Jean - Pip-Emma
- Nan Grey - Priscilla Adams
- Beulah Bondi - Miss Thornton
- Paul Cavanagh - Mr. Cooper
- Frank Jenks - Uncle Dan
- Samuel S. Hinds - Dr. McKay
- Doris Lloyd - Mrs. Binns
- Virginia Weidler - Janet Cooper
- Raymond Walburn - Mr. Layton
- Margaret Lindsay - Mrs. Cooper
- Ken Brown
- Robert Cummings - Dennis Lane
- C. Aubrey Smith - Grandpa
- Ann Gillis - Letty Lou
- Billy Gilbert - Tolio
- Shirley Mills - Cecilia Layton
- Ernest Truex - Mr. Binns
- Dickie Moore - Jerry Binns
- Spencer Charters - Man
- Harry Hayden
- Charles Coleman
- Director(s):
- Richard Wallace
- Writer(s):
- Grover Jones
- Producer(s):
- Joe Pasternak
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