Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
Acting
Dick Powell's desperate charm as the flopping fraud
Score
Actual 1937 swing — not the sanitized stuff
Cinematography
Keighley's fluid camera work during dance numbers
Director
William Keighley
Dick Powell
Charles 'Chuck' Daly
Ted Healy
William Williams
Rosemary Lane
Barbara 'Babs' Steward
Priscilla Lane
Betty Bradley
Walter Catlett
Professor Sylvester Biddle
Johnnie Davis
Buzz Bolton
John 'Bubbles' Sublett
Bubbles
Sterling Holloway
Trout
Mabel Todd
Cuddles
Lee Dixon
Johnny 'Rubberlegs' Stevens
Halliwell Hobbes
Dean Meredith
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Warner Bros' answer to the college musical craze — but with swing instead of operetta, reflecting the genre's 1937 dominance.
The Lane sisters (Rosemary and Priscilla) were genuine sisters — Warner Bros was packaging them as a duo before Priscilla's breakthrough in 'The Roaring Twenties'.
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