Start Cheering
Fed up with movie life, film star Ted Crosley quits pictures to enroll in Midland College, much to the horror of his manager Sam Lewis and his stooge-friend Willie Gumbatz. Ted wishes to enroll in school under an assumed name but ...
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"Yet another one of those college-set musicals so popular in the 1930s. This one has a famous movie star (Charles Starrett) fed up with Hollywood and deciding to go to college. He enrolls at Midland College, but his manager and his assistant follow him. A dopey dean (Raymond Walburn) insists the movie star be on the football team so they can rake in the money from the publicity. Jimmy Durante is the star here, as the assistant to the movie star's manager (Walter Connolly). He gets a few songs, but his presence grows wearying , especially when he intrudes and stops cold the terrific "..."
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The print Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has been showing since 1994 is probably a print shown in the UK, since an opening frame states "Grand National Pictures Ltd. presents Start Cheering". That company is a UK company which probably handled the UK distribution. Although the IMDb credits are based on that print, it differs markedly from the American version as listed in the AFI Catalogue. However, the print shown on TCM on 5 November 2021 and introduced by Dave Karger and Leonard Maltin has the usual "Columbia Pictures Corporation presents..." on the title card.
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Fed up with movie life, film star Ted Crosley quits pictures to enroll in Midland College, much to the horror of his manager Sam Lewis and his stooge-friend Willie Gumbatz. Ted wishes to enroll in school under an assumed name but ...