That's My Boy (1932)

Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian also cast in ... See full summary »

Director:

Roy William Neill

Writers:

Norman Krasna (screenplay), Francis Wallace (novel)

Stars:

Richard Cromwell, Dorothy Jordan, Mae Marsh

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Richard Cromwell	...	Tommy Jefferson Scott
Dorothy Jordan	...	Dorothy Whitney
Mae Marsh	...	Mom Scott
Arthur Stone	...	Pop Scott
Douglass Dumbrille	...	Coach 'Daisy' Adams
Lucien Littlefield	...	Uncle Louie
Leon Ames	...	Al Williams (as Leon Waycoff)
Russell Saunders	...	Pinkie
Sumner Getchell	...	Carl
Otis Harlan	...	Mayor
Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian	...	Hap
Elbridge Anderson	...	1st Student
Crilly Butler	...	2nd Student
Douglas Haig	...	Tommy, as a young boy

Storyline

Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members. Former USC football player John Wayne (not on the 1931 team) and Olympic swimmer Buster Crabbe also in cast as football players: Thomas Jefferson "Snakehips" Scott is the sensation of the Freshman football squad at Bedford University. After a sensational Sophomore season, varsity coach "Daisy" Adams gets him a summer "job" in the Maine woods as a bond salesman. The coach sends him there for conditioning purposes only, but Tommy is pleased with the $6,000 he gets for selling bonds he never even sees. Nice work if you can get it and, seventy years later, college football players (usually from Texas and California, playing for colleges from some other states that can't "grow their own") still manage to find similar positions. Tommy, figuring that there is more where ...

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Plot Keywords:

football | team | college | newspaper | coach | 

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Taglines:

20 GRID STARS and the University Southern California Football Team!

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance | Sport

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

13 November 1932 (USA)

Filming Locations:

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

71 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

User Reviews

John Wayne the Sportsman

There is an air of increasing confidence in the 25 year old John Wayne's walk. He is at home playing the sportsman in this film to remind him of his university days when he was studying to become a lawyer. He was better off in a western.