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Start Cheering is Columbia Pictures' idea of a college musical: Practically everyone in the cast is past the age of 30. Charles Starrett plays a movie star who wearies of Hollywood and decides to get a college education. He enrolls incognito in a small university, much to the discomfort of his managers Walter Connolly and Jimmy Durante. Durante heads for college himself, hoping to sabotage Starrett's plans and bring him back before the cameras. While Jimmy Durante is saddled with inferior material, the film gives full head to such guest stars as bandleader Louis Prima, vaudevillian Chaz Chase (who had a cigar-eating act), radio's Professor Quiz (Dr. Craig E. Earle), and Columbia's short-subject headliners The Three Stooges (with Curly!) ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Cast

Jimmy Durante
as Willie Gumbatz
Joan Perry
as Jean Worthington
Charles Starrett
as Ted Crosley
Gertrude Niesen
as Julie
Broderick Crawford
as Butch
Hal Le Roy
as Hal
Arthur Loft
as Producer
Ernest Truex
as Blodgett
Nick Lukats
Walter Connolly
as Sam Lewis
Romo Vincent
as Fatso
Larry Fine
as Stooge
Louis Prima
Raymond Walburn
as Dean Worthington
Moe Howard
as Stooge
Minerva Urecal
as Miss Grimley
Howard Hickman
as Dr. Fosdick
Arthur Hoyt
Gene Morgan
as Coach Burns

Crew

Albert Rogell
Director
Eugene Solow
Screenwriter
Philip Rapp
Screenwriter
Richard Wormser
Screenwriter
Joseph Walker
Cinematographer
Johnny Green
Composer (Music Score)
Ted Koehler
Composer (Music Score)
Ben Oakland
Composer (Music Score)
Milton Drake
Composer (Music Score)
Morris W. Stoloff
Musical Direction/Supervision
Gene Havlick
Editor
Stephen Goosson
Production Designer
Nat Perrin
Associate Producer
Robert Kalloch
Costume Designer
Ganahl Carson
Special Effects
Daniel Dare
Choreography
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