College Rhythm

College Rhythm (1934)

"You nasty man"

The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After graduation they carry their their feud and collegiate ideas over into the department store business.

Date of release
1934-11-23
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Romance
Director
Norman Taurog

Casting

Interesting facts

College Rhythm is a 1934 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Jack Oakie, Mary Brian, and Joe Penner.

Production

Several of the film's cast had appeared in the 1933 hit musical film College Humor. Dorothy Dell had been cast in the leading female role but was killed in an automobile accident on June 8, 1934.

Screenwriter Francis Martin spent four weeks with Joe Penner, a vaudeville and radio star who had no previous experience acting in feature films, before the script had been written. Penner also gave three performances at the Paramount Theatre in New York so that the screenwriters could witness how he performed before a live audience.

Lanny Ross, who had recently signed a 70-week radio contract, continued to be heard on his Maxwell House Show Boat program, the nation's top-rated show, by live remote during the filming of College Rhythm.

Filming took place from mid-August until October 1934. It had originally been scheduled to begin in June 1934 but was delayed repeatedly, including a two-week period just before shooting began in which the film's producers scrambled to find pretty girls with acting talent to fill two roles, which were won by Helen Mack and Mary Brian.

The film's score, with seven new songs, was composed by the songwriting team of Mack Gordon and Harry Revel.

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