Varsity Show
IT'S THE CHEER LEADER OF ALL SCREEN MUSICALS!
1937 · 2h · APPROVED
Music
Directed by
William Keighley
Overview
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
Director and cast
- William Keighley Director
- Dick Powell as Charles 'Chuck' Daly
- Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians Cast
- Ted Healy as William Williams
- Rosemary Lane as Barbara 'Babs' Steward
- Priscilla Lane as Betty Bradley
- Walter Catlett as Professor Sylvester Biddle
- Johnnie Davis as Buzz Bolton
- Ford Washington Lee as Buck
- John 'Bubbles' Sublett as Bubbles
- Sterling Holloway as Trout
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