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A radio songstress runs away from her sponsor and guardian to enroll in college under an assumed name.
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'Scoop' Davis
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Joan Abbott, aka Susie Smith
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Buzz O'Hara
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Uncle William 'Willie' Aloysius Smith (as Doug Leavitt)
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J.P. Hartman (as Herbert Hayes)
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Susie Smith - Hartman's Secretary
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Cynthia Walker
GeGe Pearson ...
Babs Marlow (as Gee Gee Pearson)
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Freshie
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Harold
Genevieve Grazis ...
Dancer
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Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Donald Kerr ...
Radio Station Announcer (uncredited)
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Sponsor (uncredited)
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Company Rep with Flowers (uncredited)
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Trigonometry Teacher (uncredited)
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G.K. Abernathy (uncredited)

Directed by

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Arthur Dreifuss

Written by

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Charles R. Marion ... (screenplay)
 
Ewart Adamson ... (original story) and
Jack Palmer White ... (original story) (as Jack White)
 
Albert Beich ... (additional dialogue) and
Frank Tarloff ... (additional dialogue)

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Lindsley Parsons ... producer

Cinematography by

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Mack Stengler

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Richard C. Currier ... (as Richard Currier)

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Richard L'Estrange ... production manager (as Dick L'Estrange)

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Eddie Davis ... assistant director

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Tom Lambert ... recordist

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Edward J. Kay ... music director (as Edward Kay)

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Dave Milton ... technical director

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Plot Summary

Radio singer Joan Abbott, known as the "Crunchy-Wunchy Thrush", does not want to renew her contract with the cereal sponsor, as she wants to go to college. Her Uncle Willie signs it for her, however, as she is under age. Taking the name and credentials of Susie Smith, the secretary of her employer, Hartman, she disappears and enrolls at Rawley College. There she meets Buzz, leading a college band, and Scoop, running a college newspaper, who induces her to become a reporter. The Crunchy-Wunchy company institute a search for Joan via a publicity stunt, and Scoop assigns Joan to write an editorial against this kind of bad publicity. The Abernathy Products Company institutes a nation-wide contest to find the best college band, and Rawley College is entered, with Babs, the band's soloist, coached by Joan. Cynthia, girl friend of Buzz, is jealous of Joan, suspects she is the missing "Crunchy-Wunchy Thrush" and notifies Uncle Willie. The night of the nation-wide band-contest broadcast, Babs gets sick, Joan replaces her... and the Monogram musical formula-finale begins. Written by Les Adams

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Also Known As
  • Fraternity Sweetheart (United States)
  • La prófuga de la radio (Mexico)
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  • 63 min
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Trivia The earliest documented telecasts of this film took place in New York City Thursday 2 September 1948 on WATV (Channel 13), in Detroit Sunday 12 December 1948 on WJBK (Channel 2), in Los Angeles Sunday 27 February 1949 on KTLA (Channel 5), and in Syracuse NY Wednesday 6 July 1949 on WHEN (Channel 8). See more »
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