Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)

Director:

Hamilton MacFadden

Writer:

Ralph Spence (dialogue)

Release Date:

4 May 1934 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical

Plot:

President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order...

Plot Keywords:

Government | Lobbyist | Washington D.C. | U.S. President | Criticism

Cast

Warner Baxter	...	Lawrence Cromwell
Madge Evans	...	Mary Adams
James Dunn	...	Jimmy Dugan
Sylvia Froos	...	Herself
John Boles	...	Himself
Arthur Byron	...	John Harly
Shirley Temple	...	Shirley Dugan
Ralph Morgan	...	Secretary to President
Jimmy Dallas	...	Boy Scout
Tess Gardella	...	Aunt Jemima (as Aunt Jemima)
Frank Mitchell	...	Sen. Danforth (as Mitchell & Durant)
Jack Durant	...	Sen. Short (as Mitchell & Durant)
Scotty Beckett	...	Boy auditioning for Miss Adams
Dick Foran	...	Himself (as Nick Foran)
Nigel Bruce	...	Eustis Dinwiddle

Also Known As:

Fox Movietone Follies of 1934 (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

68 min | USA:80 min (original release)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Certification:

USA:PG (re-rating) (1994)

Company:

Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

The dress that Shirley Temple wore during the "Baby, Take a Bow" number (a white organza with red polka-dots and a full skirt that became her trademark) was her own. Her mother, Gertrude Temple, thought that she would feel more comfortable wearing one of her own dresses, rather than one from the costume department.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Take It or Leave It (1944)

Soundtrack:

I'm Laughin'

Okay, But Not Really A 'Temple' Movie

This is a billed as a "Shirley Temple film," but it really isn't because she hardly appears in it. In fact, she doesn't appear until after 20 minutes have gone by, and then after the scene and a subsequent dance routine with James Dunn, disappears again until the very end. When she's here, she's as cute as ever, especially being so young.

Warner Baxter had the main role as "Lawrence Cromwell." He was assisted by his secretary played by a very pretty Madge Evans, whom I didn't know until trying to find out on this website because the video box doesn't even have her listed in the billing.

The rest of the cast included a couple of people I was familiar with from other roles, such as Nigel Bruce, who played Dr. Watson to Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes. We also have a lady who played Aunt Jemima and Stepin Fetchit, both a couple of embarrassing stereotypes of the period. I was never a fan of Fetchin, not for PC reasons but simply because of his whiny voice and stupid characters he played. He was the same here except when he dove into a fish tank, which made gave me a big laugh.

This film had a good share of strange characters but, despite that, overall isn't anything that memorable....perhaps because Shirley had such a small role.