She's Working Her Way Through College (1952)
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She's Working Her Way Through College is a completely depoliticized remake of the liberal-minded comedy The Male Animal (1942). Virginia Mayo plays an exotic dancer, Angela Gardner, who decides to improve her mind; she enrolls in a college where Professor John Palmer (Ronald Reagan) teaches… More She's Working Her Way Through College is a completely depoliticized remake of the liberal-minded comedy The Male Animal (1942). Virginia Mayo plays an exotic dancer, Angela Gardner, who decides to improve her mind; she enrolls in a college where Professor John Palmer (Ronald Reagan) teaches English. In between Angela's lively musical numbers, the film concentrates on an old rivalry between the bookish Palmer and onetime college football jock Shep Slade (Don DeFore, who'd played a bit in The Male Animal). When the college trustees oppose Angela's presence on campus, Palmer staunchly defends her right to an education. In the original Male Animal, the climactic scene involved a controversial public reading of a letter by anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti; in She's Working Her Way Through College, Palmer stands up at a public assembly to convince the populace that exotic dancers have the same rights as anyone else. Of course, Ronald Reagan could take a political stance if he wanted to...but not in this film. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- H. Bruce Humberstone
- Genres
- Drama, Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy
Unrated,
- Studio
- Warner Bros.
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Cast
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Virginia Mayo
as Angela Gardner/Hot Garters Getlie
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Ronald Reagan
as John Palmer
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Gene Nelson
as Don Weston
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Don DeFore
as Shep Slade
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Phyllis Thaxter
as Helen Palmer
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Patrice Wymore
as Ivy Williams
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Roland Winters
as Fred Copeland
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Raymond Greenleaf
as Dean Rogers
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Norman Bartold
as "Tiny" Gordon
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Amanda Randolph
as Maybelle
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George Meader
as Professor
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Eve Miller
as Secretary
- Jimmy Ames
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Jessie Arnold
as Wardrobe Woman
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The Blackburn Twins
as Themselves
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Jack Gargan
as Professor
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Donald Kerr
as Vendor
- Mark Lowell
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Charles Marsh
as Stage Manager
- Paul Maxey
- Rolland Morris
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James Ogg
as Sailor
- John Perri
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Richard Reeves
as Mike
- Frank J. Scannell
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Glen Turnbull
as Tramp
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Charles Watts
as Man
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Frances Zucco
as Coed
- Valerie Vernon
- Bette Arlen
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Hope Sansberry
as Mrs. Rogers
- Hazel Shaw
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Barbara Ritchie
as Chorus Girl
