College Rhythm
Cast & Crew
Norman Taurog
Joe Penner
Jack Oakie
Lanny Ross
Lyda Roberti
Helen Mack
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
"Love 'n' Kisses" Finnegan, a famous college quarterback, is unable to maintain his success after college and lands on hard times. He travels to Los Angeles and seeks work from Larry Stacey, a former rival who feels intellectually superior to Finnegan. Larry gives Finnegan a lowly position in his father's department store until his father, J. P., promotes Finnegan in order to use his fame as a football star in an advertising ploy. Stacey's grand reopening is a success although Larry is furious about Finnegan's participation. While Finnegan romances Larry's gold digger fiancée, Gloria Van Dayham, Larry's secretary, June Cort, tries to get Larry interested in her. Stacey's football team wins all of their games, due in part to their mascot duck Goo-Goo and his handler Joe, who is being pursued by Mimi, who works in the pet department. So as not to lose Gloria, Larry decides to toughen up and compete in a football game, using June as his trainer. Whimple's, a rival department store, challenges Stacey's to a game. Although the game is rough, Larry plays, but the team is losing because their mascot is missing. Finally, Joe arrives with Goo-Goo, and the Stacey players are fortified by his presence. Whimple's attempts to win the game by unfair tactics, but in the end, using a circus-style play, Stacey's wins. Finnegan and Larry proclaim a truce with each other, and as Larry embraces June, he realizes he loves her, thereby freeing Finnegan and Gloria to be together.
Director
Norman Taurog
Cast
Joe Penner
Jack Oakie
Lanny Ross
Lyda Roberti
Helen Mack
George Barbier
Mary Brian
Franklin Pangborn
Robert Mcwade
Harold Minjir
Dean Jagger
Mary Wallace
Joseph Sauers
Julian Madison
Dutch Hendrian
Bradley Metcalfe
Eric Alden
Lee Phelps
Gilbert Wilson
Alfred Delcambre
Howard Wilson
Morgan Wallace
Douglas Wood
Arthur Hoyt
Patrick Moriarity
Harry Strang
Lillian Harmer
Helen Dixon
Charles Irwin
Francis Sayles
Hal Raynor
Patsy Bellamy
Katharine Snell
Laura Morse
Pinkie Reynolds
Harriette Haddon
Dorothy Dayton
Grace Davies
Mary Fairweather
Helen Hawley
Bobby Joyce
June Karlin
Sheila Rae
Eileen Thomas
Mary Croft
Frances Lehman
Virginia Dabney
Margot Sage
Joyce Murray
Virginia George
Sally Haines
Lovene Sheehan
Amy Sureau
Aimee David
Mary Daly
Marguerite Caverley
Crystal Keate
Colleen Ward
Geneva Hall
Martha Fields
Mildred Dixon
Alma Ross
Rita Dunn
Dorothy White
Mickey Mackillop
"peaches" Ahlman
Ethel Bryant
Adele Cutler Jerome
Paula Decarlo
Jean Fursa
Emily La Rue
Rosalie Lissner
Mildred Morris
Bobbe Cronin
Sydna Black
Jeanette Fuller
Jean Joyce
Ethel Pressman
Bonita Barker
Edna Lawrence
Carol Carmen
Eva Reynolds
Cassie Hanley
Theo De Voe
Jeanette Dickson
Celeste Edwards
Patsy King
Bee Stevens
Kay Gordon
Betty Gordon
Myra Mason
Vivian Faulkner
Thaya Foster
Dorothy Thompson
Kathryn Hankin
Mary Jane Hodge
Betty Mcmahon
Vina Gale
Pokey Champion
Dixie Martin
Virginia Kleinberger
Regana De Liguora
Isabel Coffrey
Crew
Ed Adams
Walter De Leon
Edward Dmytryk
Hans Dreier
Andy Durkis
Stanley Goldsmith
Mack Gordon
Harry Hallenberger
Earl Hedrick
Art Lane
Louis D. Lighton
Kenneth Lobben
George Marion Jr.
Francis Martin
John Mcdermott
Eugene Merritt
Gene Merritt
Ray Moyer
Leroy Prinz
William Rand
Harry Revel
John Smirch
Leroy Stone
Ted Tetzlaff
Leo Tover
Robert Usher
Freddy Welch
Stanley Williams
Adolph Zukor
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
This film marked the motion picture debut of Joe Penner and Goo-Goo. Joe Penner was a popular radio performer. According to the film's pressbook, Hal Raynor assisted as Joe Penner's "gag-man." Raynor, an Episcopalian rector, was also known as Reverend Harry Rubel Scott. Penner's stand-in, Freddy Welch, was relieved of duty by Penner in one scene in which he had to stand in a lake, because Welch was wearing a brand-new pair of pants. Clara Lou Sheridan filled in when Lyda Roberti fell ill. Goo-Goo the duck had a mechanical stand-in due to the real duck's reported stage fright. A contemporary advertisement listed Richard Arlen and Ida Lupino as members of the cast, but their participation in the final film is doubtful.
