All-American Co-Ed

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Movie
Original title All-American Co-Ed
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1941
length 49 minutes
Rod
Director LeRoy Prince
script Cortland Fitzsimmons
Kenneth Higgins
production Hal Roach
LeRoy Prince
for United Artists Inc.
music Edward Ward
Walter G. Samuels
Charles Newman
Lloyd B. Norlin
camera Robert Pittack
cut Bert Jordan
occupation

All-American Co-Ed is a 1941 American musical film directed by LeRoy Prinz . The script is based on an original story by LeRoy Prinz and Hal Roach Jr. Bob Sheppard ( Johnny Downs ), who attends a boys 'college, poses as a girl and causes turmoil in the girls' college, especially in Virginia ( Frances Langford ).

action

When the fraternity Zeta Fraternity of Quinceton University in their music show choir girls Mar-Brynn horticultural college satirized by acting the young men dressed as girls can be, trying publicist Hap Holden Matilda Collinge, president of the Girls Colleges, to convince that she also needs a similar publicity stunt to get more students to her school. However, Matilda thinks little of such an undignified idea as she finds. Her niece Virginia persuades her, however, and so she agrees to the proposal to award twelve scholarships to twelve beauty queens with such imaginative names as tomato or pumpkin queen and the like. To get more exposure, Virginia writes a derisive article for the Quincetone student newspaper. There the young men decide to reciprocate and persuade their wrestling champion Bob Sheppard to dress up as a girl and fight for the title and one of the scholarships awarded with it. Bob applies with a photo as "Queen of Flowers" and is actually selected as one of the scholarship recipients. Reluctantly, he goes to Mar Brynn, disguised as a girl under the name of Bobbie De Wolfe, where he gets a single room, as Matilda assumes that he has a cold due to his hoarse voice. In college , Bob falls in love with Virginia at first sight. This invites him to a secret singing the night before the chapel. When he is on his way there, albeit as Bob, he accidentally holds on to a bell rope of the chapel and realizes to his horror that he has to hold on to it if he does not want the students and teachers of the university to be woken up by the bell ringing. There he is discovered by Virginia and now pushes the rope into her hands, only to surprise her with a kiss.

The next morning, Bob tells his fellow students that he wants to end the mistake because he has fallen in love with Virginia. But it doesn't come to that, but there is another misunderstanding between Virginia and Bob, since Virginia assumes that Bob has also had an eye on Bobbie. On the day of the show, an incident occurs when Bob walks through the greenhouse as Bobbie and his wig gets caught in a plant. Unnoticed by him, Virginia saw that and now knows. When Holden and Matilda find out about this, they react irritably, but are so pressed for time that they do nothing further. The show was a success, and Bob and Virginia also found each other.

Production and Background

Filming for the film began in July 1941. On October 31, 1941, All-American Co-Ed was released in US cinemas . Hal Roach Studios, Inc. was responsible for production and the film was distributed by United Artists Corp.

The film's working titles were Campus Rhythm and All-American Girl . The film begins with a written statement that any resemblance in the story, if it does match actual college life, is purely coincidental. All-American Co-End was one of Hal Roach's streamlined short comedies that were added to a second film. The first of these short films was the film Tanks a Million, also released in 1941 .

Songs in the movie

- Music and text by Walter G. Samuels and Charles Newman -

  • I'm A Chap With A Chip On My Shoulder - presented by Johnny Downs and choir, sung by Frances Langford
  • Up At The Crack Of Dawn sung by Marjorie Woodworth, the Tanner Sisters and Harry Langdon and Chorus
  • The Farmer's Daughter , presented by Frances Langford, the Tanner Sisters and Johnny Downs and Chorus

- Music and text by Lloyd B. Norlin -

criticism

The Classic Film Guide spoke of a "pretty lame" story.

Awards

1942 was Edward Ward with All-American Co-Ed in the category "Best Original Score in a music film" nominated for an Oscar, but had against Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace with their music for the animated film Dumbo the cold.

Was also nominated Lloyd B. Norlin in the category "Best Song" with its written for the film song Out of the Silence . However, the Oscar went to Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II for their song The Last Time I Saw Paris from the musical film Lady Be Good .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All-American Co-Ed (1941) Original Print Information at TCM - Turner Classic Movies (English)
  2. ↑ All-American Co-Ed (1941) Notes at TCM - Turner Classic Movies (English)
  3. ↑ All-American Co-Ed (1941) at classicfilmguide.com (English). Retrieved January 19, 2014.