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6.9/10   37 votes
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Director:
Nick Grinde
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Writers:
Richard English (writer)
Lewis R. Foster (screenplay)
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Release Date:
14 July 1939 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
Take A Peek ! Don't stare to long . . . when you see them !
Plot:
At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye... more | add synopsis
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Don't bother more (3 total)

Cast

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Betty Grable ... Carol Parker
John Hartley ... Greg Melton Jr.

Donald O'Connor ... Sticky Boone
Jackie Coogan ... Russ Simpson
Dorothea Kent ... Susie Quinn
Joyce Mathews ... Bunny Maxwell
Peter Lind Hayes ... Freddie 'Ten-Percent' Fry (as Peter Hayes)
Buster Crabbe ... Coach Jordan (as Larry Crabbe)
Richard Denning ... Hunk Jordan
Phil Warren ... Buck Hogan
Edward Arnold Jr. ... Blimp Garrett
Thurston Hall ... Gregory Melton Sr.
Roy Gordon ... Dean Wixby
Matty Kemp ... Ed Riggs
William Tracy ... Egghead Jackson
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
65 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Company:
Paramount Pictures more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Director Nick Grinde was fired a week into production and replaced by Edward Dmytryk. more
Quotes:
Dean Wixby: It was our beloved student body president!
Coach Baxter: Frye?
Dean Wixby: Fry! I'll boil him in oil.
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4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Don't bother, 14 January 2002
4/10
Author: psteier from New York

Rather lame as college humor/romance/drama/sport pictures go, though one of the few to use crew as the sport.

Those looking for why Betty Grable was so popular probably should look elsewhere.

Not related to the W.C. Fields 'Million Dollar Legs (1932)'.

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