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Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)
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3 December 1937 (USA) morePlot:
Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Mickey & Judy Start Their Long Date moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Ronald Sinclair | ... | Roger Calverton | |
| Judy Garland | ... | Cricket West | |
| Mickey Rooney | ... | Timmie 'Tim' Donovan | |
| C. Aubrey Smith | ... | Sir Peter Calverton | |
| Sophie Tucker | ... | Mother 'Aunt Edie' Ralph | |
| Forrester Harvey | ... | Mr. Wilkins, the Trainer | |
| Charles D. Brown | ... | 'Click' Donovan | |
| Frankie Darro | ... | 'Dink' Reid | |
| Henry Kolker | ... | 'Doc' Godfrey | |
| Helen Troy | ... | Hilda, Mother Ralph's Maid |
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80 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Filming Locations:
Santa Anita Park - 285 West Huntington Drive, Arcadia, California, USAFun Stuff
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This film, the first of 10 to feature both Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, is also the only one in which she is billed ahead of him. moreGoofs:
Continuity: In the final race Frankie Darro is wearing no. 4 in the starting gate. Later in a close up he is wearing no. 7. Then at the finish he is again wearing no. 4. moreQuotes:
Jim, Racetrack Usher: Listen here, lady, I'm the usher!Mother 'Aunt Edie' Ralph: Well go on and ush!
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Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean moreFAQ
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Left insolvent in America by the death of his grandfather, a young English lad learns that THOROUGHBREDS DON'T CRY. Now it's time for his new buddies, an irrepressible girl & an excitable jockey, to help him make his race horse a winner.
This little film, with a horse race plot both contrived & convoluted, is mere entertainment fluff. Its real significance is that it was the first movie to co-star Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland. Rooney is hyper-energetic & Garland exhibits her wide-eyed exuberance; together they hint at much better films to come in the future. Ronald Sinclair receives equal billing with them, and he does a good job with his role, but up against the Dynamic Duo he never really stood a chance. His celebrity would prove to be rather transitory.
Forrester Harvey does fine in a small performance as a jolly horse trainer. Wonderful old Sir C. Aubrey Smith lends a touch of class to his role as an English gentleman. But it is the inimitable Sophie Tucker who steals the film as Garland's mother, a big sharp-tongued woman you wouldn't want to trifle with. For some unfathomable reason, the script gives her no chance to sing. Unbelievable! At the very least, a Tucker/Garland duet could have made the film truly memorable.
Movie mavens will recognize Lionel Belmore as a butler & Elisha Cook, Jr. as a jockey, both unbilled.
A `pookah', by the way, is an Irish ghost horse.