“College Swing” is a hilarious comedy film featuring scores of familiar faces like Gracie Allen, who plays a young woman who fails to graduate from a college founded by her grandfather for a ninth year in a row. Her grandfather then puts a codicil in his will that he will leave ownership of the college to the first female to graduate from the institution. She hires a fast-talking friend, played by Bob Hope, to help her in her quest for a degree, and is opposed by a woman-hating professor (Edward Everett Horton) and his secretary, played by Gracie’s real life husband George Burns.
This film was superbly directed by Raoul Walsh (“Me and My Gal” 1932) with a sterling screenplay by Walter DeLeon and Frederick Hazlitt Brennan. As if George Burns and Gracie Allen, Bob Hope, and E. E. Horton weren’t enough, the cast also includes big names like Betty Grable, Martha Raye, Jackie Coogan, John Payne, and Robert Cummings. Jerry Colonna and Mary Livingstone (Mrs. Jack Benny) have uncredited parts.
Music by Hoagy Carmichael and others are also featured in “College Swing,” top-rate entertainment from Raoul Walsh and Paramount Pictures.
College Swing (1938)
cinema
My Review
“College Swing” is a hilarious comedy film featuring scores of familiar faces like Gracie Allen, who plays a young woman who fails to graduate from a college founded by her grandfather for a ninth year in a row. Her grandfather then puts a codicil in his will that he will leave ownership of the college to the first female to graduate from the institution. She hires a fast-talking friend, played by Bob Hope, to help her in her quest for a degree, and is opposed by a woman-hating professor (Edward Everett Horton) and his secretary, played by Gracie’s real life husband George Burns.
This film was superbly directed by Raoul Walsh (“Me and My Gal” 1932) with a sterling screenplay by Walter DeLeon and Frederick Hazlitt Brennan. As if George Burns and Gracie Allen, Bob Hope, and E. E. Horton weren’t enough, the cast also includes big names like Betty Grable, Martha Raye, Jackie Coogan, John Payne, and Robert Cummings. Jerry Colonna and Mary Livingstone (Mrs. Jack Benny) have uncredited parts.
Music by Hoagy Carmichael and others are also featured in “College Swing,” top-rate entertainment from Raoul Walsh and Paramount Pictures.