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Musical Monday: Collegiate (1935)

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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
Collegiate (1935) – Musical #836

Studio:
Paramount Pictures

Director:
Ralph Murphy

Starring:
Joe Penner, Jack Oakie, Ned Sparks, Francis Langford, Betty Grable, Lynne Overman, Henry Kolker
Themselves: Betty Jane Cooper, Bob Crosby, Mack Gordon, Harry Revel

Plot:
Jerry Craig (Oakie) inherits an all-girl school from his aunt and can’t sell the school. They also meet Joe (Penner), who has amnesia but somehow has a great deal of money and is their financial benefactor. To make the school profitable and with the use of Joe’s money, Jerry and his pals (Sparks, Overman) transform the school into a charm school. Jerry also overcomes one road block: Miss Hay (Langford), who was his aunt’s secretary and is protective over the school.

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Musical Monday: Career Girl (1944)

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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
“Career Girl” (1944)– Musical #590

Studio:
Producers Releasing Corporation

Director:
Wallace Fox

Starring:
Frances Langford, Edward Norris, Iris Adrian, Craig Woods, Linda Brent, Alec Craig, Ariel Heath, Lorraine Krueger, Gladys Blake, Charles Judels, Marcy McGuire, Bess Flowers (uncredited)

Plot:
Joan Terry (Langford) traveled from Kansas City to New York City with hopes to hit it big on Broadway. While she unsuccessfully looks for work, she moves from her hotel to a women’s acting boarding house. There are lots of different personalities in the house: stuck up and catty burlesque queen Thelma (Brent), naïve Sue (Heath) who wants to be in show business, and sassy Glenda (Adrian), who becomes Joan’s good friend. Joan has a fiance in Kansas City who is put out with her career and wants her to come home to marry him, however, Steve (Norris) who is in New York also is wooing Joan.

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