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All-American Co-ed
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Directed by	Leroy Prinz
Written by	Adapted by Kenneth Higgins
Screenplay by	Cortland Fitzsimmons
Based on	From an original story by Leroy Prinz and Hal Roach Jr.
Produced by	Leroy Prinz
Starring	Frances Langford Johnny Downs Marjorie Woodworth Noah Beery Jr. Esther Dale Harry Langdon and The Tanner Sisters
Cinematography	Robert Pittack, A.S.C.
Edited by	Bert Jordan
Music by	Edward Ward
Production company	Hal Roach Studios, Inc.
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	October 31, 1941 (1941-10-31)
Running time	53 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$108,932
Box office	$190,107

All-American Co-ed is a 1941 American musical film produced and directed by Leroy Prinz as a Hal Roach Streamliner for release by United Artists. It stars Frances Langford, Johnny Downs, Marjorie Woodworth, Noah Beery Jr., Esther Dale, Harry Langdon, and The Tanner Sisters.

Plot

Quinceton College Zeta fraternity stages a revue with members in drag. The resulting publicity catches the attention of newspaperman Hap Holden (Harry Langdon) and Virginia Collinge (Frances Langford). They convince Virginia's aunt Matilda Collinge (Esther Dale), president of failing Mar Brynn (a woman's horticultural college), to refute the school's staid image by sponsoring a contest awarding a dozen free scholarships aimed at "unusual girls", winners of pageants for fruits, vegetables and flowers, as women most likely to succeed and to be showcased in a musical presentation during the Fall Festival.

To publicize the contest, President Collinge pokes fun at Zeta members as being least likely to succeed and bans them from their campus. For revenge the Zeta chapter president Bob Sheppard (Johnny Downs) is coerced to infiltrate Mar Brynn by entering the contest as "Bobbie DeWolfe, Queen of the Flowers". After falling in love with Virginia, Bob comes clean and assists in staging the show, but includes in the finale a Busby Berkeley-style spelling out of "Zeta" as revenge for the ban.

Cast

Frances Langford as Virginia
Johnny Downs as Bob Sheppard
Marjorie Woodworth as Bunny
Noah Beery Jr. as Slinky
Esther Dale as Matilda
Harry Langdon as Hap Holden
Alan Hale Jr. as Tiny
Kent Rogers as Henry
Allan Lane as 2nd Senior
Joe Brown Jr. as 3rd Senior
Irving Mitchell as Doctor
Lillian Randolph as Washwoman (Deborah)
Carlyle Blackwell Jr. as 4th Senior
Mickey Tanner • Betty Tanner • Martha Tanner as Vocal Trio

Uncredited

Frank O'Connor, as Policeman
Jesse Graves, as Redcap
Dudley Dickerson, as Dancing Train Porter
Elyse Knox, as Co-ed
Marie Windsor, as Carrot Queen

Soundtrack

Johnny Downs with chorus - "I'm a Chap with a Chip on My Shoulder" (by Walter G. Samuels and Charles Newman)
Frances Langford - "I'm a Chap with a Chip on My Shoulder"
Marjorie Woodworth, Tanner Sisters with Harry Langdon and chorus - "Up at the Crack of Dawn" (by Walter G. Samuels and Charles Newman)
Frances Langford with chorus - "Out of the Silence" (by Lloyd B. Norlin)
Frances Langford, Tanner Sisters and Johnny Downs - "The Farmer's Daughter" (by Walter G. Samuels and Charles Newman)

"Out of the Silence", music and lyrics by Lloyd B. Norlin, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song of 1941. It lost to Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's "The Last Time I Saw Paris", from Lady Be Good (1941).

References

^ Ward, Richard Lewis (2005). A history of the Hal Roach Studios. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 213.

External links

All-American Co-Ed at IMDb
All-American Co-Ed is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

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