Start Cheering is a 1938 American musical film directed by Albert S. Rogell and starring Jimmy Durante , Charles Starrett , Joan Perry , and Walter Connolly . It is best remembered today for guest appearances throughout the film by The Three Stooges ( Curly Howard , Moe Howard , and Larry Fine ), who were Columbia Pictures ' short subject headliners at the time, as campus firemen. The film's choreography was by Danny Dare .
7-416: Film star Ted Crosley is fed up with Hollywood and quits the movies to enroll in college under an assumed name. While Ted struggles to fit in on campus and tries out for the football team, his frustrated manager Sam Lewis and Lewis's sidekick Willie Gumbatz try to have him expelled from the college so he can resume his Hollywood career. Radio's Professor Quiz is teaching a special course on campus, giving Lewis
14-460: The film: he eats everything on his person: pages from books, flowers, buttons, etc. This article about a romantic musical film is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Professor Quiz Professor Quiz was radio's first true quiz program, broadcast with many different sponsors from 1936 to 1948 on CBS and ABC. The program featured Professor Quiz, his wife Betty, and his son, Professor Quiz Jr. The program's announcer
21-500: The idea to promote Crosley's campus activities on network radio. Bandleader Johnny Green is also on campus, lending musical accompaniment to the many songs. Production began in October 1937 under the title Freshman Follies . One of the original songs, "Start Cheering," became the new film title. Many members of Columbia's stock company played incidental roles, and some of them appear twice in different roles and costumes. Charles Starrett
28-440: The last program on July 17, 1948. From the program's debut until August 1938, it averaged receiving about 15,000 letters from listeners each week. The program's format pitted five people from the audience against each other for several rounds of questions until the winner received a cash prize. Additional prizes went to some listeners who sent in questions that were used on the air. Each winner received $ 25 in silver dollars, and
35-453: The runner-up received 15 silver dollars. By September 1947, more than 2500 contestants had received more than $ 100,000 on the program. The quizmaster, Professor Quiz, was Dr. Craig Earle, a pseudonym for Arthur E. Baird . Sponsors included Velvet Pipe and Cigarette Tobacco and Kelvinator appliances. In February 1940, a Professor Quiz home game was available with the purchase of a bottle of Teel (a liquid dentifrice). The game included
42-477: Was Robert Trout . The show began on May 9, 1936, sponsored by George Washington Coffee, on a limited CBS hook-up from Washington, D.C., expanding to the full network on September 18, 1936 from New York. George Washington Coffee also sponsored Uncle Jim's Question Bee , radio's second quiz show which began four months after the debut of Professor Quiz . Arthur Godfrey was a host of the program in 1937. The series moved to ABC on January 24, 1946, continuing until
49-588: Was established as Columbia's cowboy star, and petitioned his employers to cast him in modern-day stories. Start Cheering was Starrett's only opportunity along these lines; Columbia returned him to westerns, and he remained with Columbia until his retirement in 1952. The ingenue in Start Cheering , Joan Perry, made such an impression on Columbia president Harry Cohn that he proposed marriage to her. They were wed until Cohn's death in 1958. Specialty performer Chaz Chase does his vaudeville act periodically during
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