Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
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Based on an idea by Will Rogers, the story concerns the efforts by the President of the United States to get the public's mind off the Depression. To this end, he appoints Broadway impresario Lawrence Cromwell (Warner Baxter) to the new cabinet position of "Secretary of Amusement."… More Based on an idea by Will Rogers, the story concerns the efforts by the President of the United States to get the public's mind off the Depression. To this end, he appoints Broadway impresario Lawrence Cromwell (Warner Baxter) to the new cabinet position of "Secretary of Amusement." Wasting no time, Cromwell sets about to nationalize the entertainment industry, organizing singers, dancers, actors and other variety artists into batallion-like touring units. Cromwell is fought at every turn by a cartel of wealthy industrialists, who've been profiting from the Depression and have no desire to see America pull itself upward. Happily, every effort to bribe or cajole Cromwell into giving up his mission is thwarted and the Department of Amusement goes on to help the the country at a time when its citizens most needed it. Among the highlights are an energetic "revival-meeting" musical number by Aunt Jemima (Theresa Gardella), and 6-year-old Shirley Temple's rendition of "Baby Take a Bow." Originally released at 80 minutes, Stand Up and Cheer was edited to 69 minutes for reissue, then to 65 minutes (removing most of Stepin Fetchit's scenes) for television: it was this last version which was computer-colorized in 1987. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Hamilton MacFadden
- Written By
- Ralph Spence
- Genres
- Kids & Family, Musical & Performing Arts, Classics, Comedy
PG,
- In Theaters
- Apr 19, 1934 Wide
- Studio
- Fox Film Corporation
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Cast
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Warner Baxter
as Lawrence Cromwell
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Madge Evans
as Mary Adams
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James Dunn
as Dugan
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John Boles
as himself
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Shirley Temple
as Specialty Number
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Ralph Morgan
as President's Secretary
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Dick Foran
as Specialty Number
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Nigel Bruce
as Eustace Dinwiddie
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Stepin Fetchit
as George Bernard Shaw
- Morris Ankrum
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George K. Arthur
as Dance Director
- Aunt Jemima
- Lynn Bari
- Scotty Beckett
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A.S. Byron
as Harley
- Wallis Clark
- Gilbert Clayton
- Dora Clement
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Ruth Clifford
as Female Secretary
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Clyde Dilson
as Correspondent
- Elspeth Dudgeon
- Harry Dunkinson
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Jack Durant
as Senator Short
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Edward Earle
as Secret Service Man
- Bess Flowers
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Tess Gardella
as Aunt Jemima
- Carlton Elliott Griffin
- Dorothy Gulliver
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Arthur Stuart Hull
as Senator
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Sam Hayes
as Radio Announcer
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Aggie Herring
as Irish Washerwoman
- Selmar Jackson
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Si Jenks
as Rube Farmer
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Lila Lee
as Zelda
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Lucien Littlefield
as Prof. Hi De Ho
- Arthur Loft
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Wilbur Mack
as Beamish
- Paul McVey
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Frank Melton
as Fosdick
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John Miller
as Hillbilly
- Frances Morris
- Dagmar Oakland
- Herbert Prior
- Roland Ray
- Jack Richardson
- Frank Sheridan
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Reginald Simpson
as Male Secretary
- Paul Stanton
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Carl Stockdale
as Quartette
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Phil Tead
as Vaudevillian
- Lurene Tuttle
- Guy Usher
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Arthur Vinton
as Turner
- Peggy Watts
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Lillian West
as Stenographer
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Dorothy White
as Dancer
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Gayne Whitman
as President
- Lew Brown
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Bobby Caldwell
as Gen. Lee
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John Davidson
as Sour Radio Announcer
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Frank Mitchell
as Senator Danforth
- Dorothy Dehn
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Joe Marba
as Elephant Trainer
- Patricia Lee
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Harry S. Northrup
as Reformers
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Tina Marshall
as Boy's Mother
- Jessie Perry
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Glen Walters
as Hillbilly's Wife
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Vivian Winston
as Bits
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Angie Blue
as Dancer
- Sylvia Froos
