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GOOD NEWS
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CREDITS
1930, 85 minutes, B&W.
Directors, Nick Grinde, Edgar McGregor; Writers, Frances Marion, Joe Farnham; Cinematography, Percy Hilburn; Dance Direction, Sammy Lee.
CAST
Babe O'Day, Bessie Love; Tom Marlowe, Stanley Smith; Robbie, Gus Shy; Constance Lane, Mary Lawlor; Bat, Lola Lane; Flo, Dorothy McNulty; Pooch Kearney, Cliff Edwards; Coach Jackson, Thomas Jackson; Beef, Delmer Daves; Professor Kenyon, Frank McGlynn, Sr.; Himself, Abe Lyman.
SONGS
The Varsity Drag; He's a Ladies Man; Good News; Tait Song; Students Are We by Buddy De Sylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson; If You're Not Kissing Me; Football by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown; I Feel Pessimistic by J. Russell Robinson and George Waggner; Gee, But I'd Like to Make You Happy by Reggie Montgomery.
PLOT SYNOPSIS
". . .football hero threatens the chances of his college team by neglecting his studies, but is successfully coached by an ugly duckling astronomy student who blossoms - mirabile dictu - into a beauty. . ."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical
NOTES
"By the time the 1927 Laurence Schwab-Lew Brown-Frank Mandel-Buddy De Sylva [stage] musical Good News came to the screen via MGM, it was old news, and its tired story. . .certainly needed all the help it could get. . ."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical
"Not the smash hit the show was. Too fast, too peppy, too entertaining to flop, though."
- Variety
Co-director Edgar McGregor was the Broadway show's original director.
Several song sequences were cut from the film, including The Best Things in Life Are Free, Lucky in Love and That's How You Know We're Co-Eds.
The Technicolor sequences for Good News are considered lost.
Good News was remade by MGM in 1947.
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