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Start Cheering is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Albert S. Rogell released in USA on 3 march 1938 with Jimmy Durante

Start Cheering (1938)

Start Cheering
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Released in USA 3 march 1938
Length 1h18
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Romantic comedy,    Musical,    Romance
Rating60% 3.0060353.0060353.0060353.0060353.006035

Start Cheering is a 1938 musical motion picture starring Jimmy Durante, Walter Connolly and Joan Perry. It is best remembered today for a cameo appearance by The Three Stooges, who were Columbia Pictures' short subject headliners at the time, as Campus Firemen. The film's choreography was by Danny Dare.

Synopsis

Film star Ted Crosley (Charles Starrett) is fed up with Hollywood and quits the movies to enroll in college under a fake name. While Ted tries to fit in at academia, his frustrated managers (Walter Connolly, Jimmy Durante) try to have him expelled from the college in order for him to resume his Hollywood career.

Actors

Jimmy Durante

(Willie Gumbatz)Walter Connolly

(Sam Lewis)Charles Starrett

(Ted Crosley)Joan Perry

(Jean Worthington)Broderick Crawford

(Biff Gordon)
And :
Louis Prima
Raymond Walburn
Hal Le Roy
Moe Howard
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