College Rhythm

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Audience Member Lanny Ross stars as a studious, piccolo playing college student who has a rivalry with the popular, womanizing football star Jack Oakie. In particular, they fight over Ross's fiance Mary Brian. After they graduate, Oakie is unable to parlay his fame into anything and is living as a tramp. He travels to Los Angeles to solicit a job from Ross who is working as the General Manager of the department store his father owns. Ross gives him a menial job, but fortunes change when Ross's strategy for running the store has resulted in no customers, so his dad promotes Oakie and has him run the store's publicity campaign. While Oakie makes a move on Brian, Ross remains oblivious to the fact that his secretary Helen Mack is deeply in love with him. This plot is mainly an apparatus for hanging musical numbers on. Ross is a crooner in the Bing Crosby tradition, and he sings several songs. Radio entertainer Joe Penner is on hand playing the football teams mascot. He's an oddly mush-mouthed, childlike comedian who's trademark was his pet duck Goo Goo. Goo Goo is in the movie and Joe even sings a song to him. Strangely accented, man-chasing singer/comedian Lyda Roberti is on hand to romance Joe. She sings a lot of songs and fumes that Joe seems to love Goo Goo more than her. The whole film cilmaxes in a football game between the rival department stores that's packed with slapstick comedy, musical numbers and hundreds and hundreds of ducks. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Another entry in Paramount's seemingly endless series of 1930's college musicals; this one is fast-moving and fun, and introduced the song standard "Stay as Sweet as You Are." Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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