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So This Is College

SO THIS IS COLLEGE

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CREDITS

1929, 98 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Sam Wood; Director; Sam Wood; Screenplay, Al Boasberg, Delmer Daves and Joe Farnham; Cinematography, Leonard Smith.

CAST

Eddie, Elliott Nugent; Biff, Robert Montgomery; Windy, Cliff Edwards; Babs, Sally Starr; Polly, Polly Moran; Betty, Phylliss Crane; Jane, Dorothy Dehn; Moe, Max Davidson; Momma, Ann Brody; Freshie, Oscar Rudolph; Stupid, Gene Stone; Coach, Lee Shumway.

SONGS

Sophomore Prom by Jesse Greer; College Days, Campus Capers by Martin Broones; I Don't Want Your Kisses by Fred Fisher and Martin Broones.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"As was typical of most campus musical comedies, the students on view in So This Is College didn't so much as open a book. . .They were far more concerned with the friendship between two football-playing buddies and the romance each is having with a scheming college girl whose duplicity is revealed at the big USC-Stanford match."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

NOTES

"Elliott Nugent, Robert Montgomerry and Sally Starr were recruited from Broadway by producer-director Sam Wood to breathe freshness into the workaday plot, but despite the inclusion of some existing stock footage of an actual football match between the two universities (filmed in 1928) and the addition of four songs, the movie - like Miss Starr - came and went."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

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