The Year Delmar Daves Wrote LOVE STORY....

Brown's humor generally escapes folks in the 21st century.

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

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Joe E. Brown

Martha Raye

Eric Blore

Delmer Daves

A show-biz couple inherit a college on the brink of bankruptcy. In a bid to increase funding they attempt to build up the college football team by offering $1,000 for every touchdown scored.

James P. Hogan

$1000 a Touchdown

Martha Raye can&apos;t open her father&apos;s bankrupt college, so she hires Joe E. Brown to run it as a thearical school. Brown is the scion of a disinguished theatrical family. He&apos;s afflicted with stage fright, agoraphobia, and probably claustrophobia. When they run even further into debt, they decide the only way to save the place is to have their football team beat some other well-known football team.

Director James Hogan does what he can with this script, but given the two leads, they needed gag writers. Instead they got Delmar Daves, whose other writing credit that year was LOVE STORY. Brown gets to open his mouth wide a couple of times, and do the drunk act. Miss Raye gets to talk fast. With Eric Blore, Susan Hayward, Sid Saylor, Matt McHugh, and Don Wilson as the football commentator.

Martha Raye can't open her father's bankrupt college, so she hires Joe E. Brown to run it as a thearical school. Brown is the scion of a disinguished theatrical family. He's afflicted with stage fright, agoraphobia, and probably claustrophobia. When they run even further into debt, they decide the only way to save the place is to have their football team beat some other well-known football team.

Director James Hogan does what he can with this script, but given the two leads, they needed gag writers. Instead they got Delmar Daves, whose other writing credit that year was LOVE STORY. Brown gets to open his mouth wide a couple of times, and do the drunk act. Miss Raye gets to talk fast. With Eric Blore, Susan Hayward, Sid Saylor, Matt McHugh, and Don Wilson as the football commentator.

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