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Stand Up and Cheer!

  • 19341934
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 8m
IMDb RATING
5.4/10
551
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Sylvia Froos in Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
ComedyMusicalRomance
A little girl's (Shirley Temple) toe-tapping musical numbers uplift the nation during the Depression in this charming classic that includes Temple's rendition of "Baby Take a Bow.A little girl's (Shirley Temple) toe-tapping musical numbers uplift the nation during the Depression in this charming classic that includes Temple's rendition of "Baby Take a Bow.A little girl's (Shirley Temple) toe-tapping musical numbers uplift the nation during the Depression in this charming classic that includes Temple's rendition of "Baby Take a Bow.
IMDb RATING
5.4/10
551
YOUR RATING
    • Hamilton MacFadden
  • Writers
    • Lew Brown(story and dialogue: collaborator)
    • Will Rogers(story idea suggested)
    • Philip Klein(story idea suggested)
  • Stars
    • Warner Baxter
    • Madge Evans
    • James Dunn
    • Hamilton MacFadden
  • Writers
    • Lew Brown(story and dialogue: collaborator)
    • Will Rogers(story idea suggested)
    • Philip Klein(story idea suggested)
  • Stars
    • Warner Baxter
    • Madge Evans
    • James Dunn
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 16User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    Shirley Temple and Dick Foran in Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
    Shirley Temple and Madge Evans in Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
    Madge Evans in Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
    Madge Evans in Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
    Madge Evans in Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
    Shirley Temple and Madge Evans in Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
    Shirley Temple and Madge Evans in Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
    Madge Evans in Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
    Shirley Temple, Scotty Beckett, Mary Jane Carey, Lorena Carr, and Madge Evans in Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
    Warner Baxter and Madge Evans in Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
    Scotty Beckett in Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
    Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Grace Davies, and Dixie Dean in Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)

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    Warner Baxter
    Warner Baxter
    • Lawrence Cromwell
    Madge Evans
    Madge Evans
    • Mary Adams
    James Dunn
    James Dunn
    • Jimmy Dugan
    Sylvia Froos
    Sylvia Froos
    • Sylvia Froos
    John Boles
    John Boles
    • John Boles
    Arthur Byron
    Arthur Byron
    • John Harly
    Shirley Temple
    Shirley Temple
    • Shirley Dugan
    Ralph Morgan
    Ralph Morgan
    • Secretary to President
    Jimmy Dallas
    • Boy Scout
    Tess Gardella
    Tess Gardella
    • Aunt Jemima
    • (as 'Aunt Jemima')
    Frank Mitchell
    Frank Mitchell
    • Senator Danforth
    • (as Mitchell)
    Jack Durant
    Jack Durant
    • Senator Short
    • (as Durant)
    Dick Foran
    Dick Foran
    • Nick Foran
    • (as Nick Foran)
    Nigel Bruce
    Nigel Bruce
    • Dinwiddle
    John 'Skins' Miller
    • Hill-Billy
    • (as 'Skins' Miller)
    Stepin Fetchit
    Stepin Fetchit
    • George Bernard Shaw
    Jean Allen
    Jean Allen
    • Dancer
    • (uncredited)
    Dorothy Andre
    • Dancer
    • (uncredited)
      • Hamilton MacFadden
    • Writers
      • Lew Brown(story and dialogue: collaborator)
      • Will Rogers(story idea suggested)
      • Philip Klein(story idea suggested)
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    • Trivia
      For the "Baby, Take a Bow" number with James Dunn, the studio felt it would be easier for Shirley Temple to do the dance she had done at her audition rather than learn a new one, so Temple spent her first day on the set giving Dunn dancing lessons.
    • Quotes

      Lawrence Cromwell: Now, Miss Monroe...

      Mary Adams: Er, Adams.

      Lawrence Cromwell: Oh, yes, step here a minute, will you, please... something I want to show you. There's one phase in this amusement campaign which I think you ought to understand. The zones in...

      [overcome by her good looks, he stops]

      Lawrence Cromwell: You're beautiful.

      Mary Adams: Ah, of course I'm not.

      Lawrence Cromwell: What's that?

      Mary Adams: I said I'm not beautiful.

      Lawrence Cromwell: Young woman, you're talking to Lawrence Cromwell... Lawrence Cromwell, the world's recognized authority on feminine beauty and charm. Do you mean to stand there and question my judgment on the subject of beauty? Do you? Do you?

      Mary Adams: Oh, no, no, I wasn't...

      Lawrence Cromwell: Oh, but you DID question it. Now, you listen to me: when Lawrence Cromwell says a girl's beautiful, she's BEAUTIFUL, do you understand? Ha, the very idea! I demand an apology. Your personality definitely puts you in Class 10-A, Department B, with a double-X rating in my card index system. And, my system is the pre-eminent beauty catalogue of today.

      [sizing her up at a glance]

      Lawrence Cromwell: Height, 5 foot 4... weight, 116... bust, 34... waist, 26... hips, 36... calf, 12 and 1/2... ankle, 7. Questioning my judgement! Ha, ha, that is good.

      Mary Adams: I'm really awfully sorry, Mr. Cromwell.

      Lawrence Cromwell: Never mind, never mind, just... just let it be a lesson to you.

    • Alternate versions
      Different versions of this film exist, with various running times between 68 and 81 minutes. Some prints have deleted demeaning & outdated cultural depictions of African Americans that are offensive to modern audiences, including scenes with _Stepin Fetchit_ and _Tess Gardella_ in blackface as "Aunt Jemima".
    • Connections
      Featured in Young People (1940)
    • Soundtracks
      Stand Up And Cheer!
      (1934) (uncredited)

      Lyrics and Music by Lew Brown and Harry Akst

      Sung by over the end credits

      Instrumental over the title sequence and beginning credits

      c. 1934 Movietone Music Corportation

    User reviews16

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    7/10
    Depression Musical Fantasy
    STAND UP AND CHEER (Fox, 1934), directed by Hamilton MacFadden, features Warner Baxter as Lawrence Cromwell, a Broadway producer who is appointed by the U.S. president as secretary of amusement to rid the country of the Depression blues. Madge Evans co-stars as Cromwell's secretary, Mary Adams, and Arthur Byron as John Hartly, a corrupt politician who wants to keep the Depression going so he can stay in political power, but fails in trying to bribe Cromwell to give up his position.

    An enjoyable Depression musical which reflects upon the people and the times, is noted virtually as a Shirley Temple movie. With Baxter and Evans enjoying more screen time, Temple, with her limitations to the plot, became an overnight sensation playing little Shirley Dugan, daughter to song and dance man, Jimmy Dugan (James Dunn). The musical numbers in STAND UP AND CHEER do not play for the audiences in the movie (there are none), but mainly to its viewers. The song and dance appears during the course of the story, beginning with Dick (billed Nick) Foran coming out of a front page newspaper as Baxter and Evans read the headlines, and singing "I'm Laughing," later sung by a cross-country of citizens, and concluding with Aunt Jemima (Tess Gardella) and chorus. Next comes "Baby, Take a Bow" performed by Dunn, a chorine, and Temple; "Broadway's Gone Hillbilly" (sung by Sylvia Froos and chorus); "She's Way Up Thar" (sung by John "Skins" Miller); "This Is Our Last Night Together" (an audition number, sung by John Boles and Sylvia Froos); and the big parade march of happy Americans singing "We're Out of the Red" (introduced by Foran as the Paul Revere bearer of good news on a horse riding across the sky).

    As many classic movies in recent years have been nearly restored to its original length, such as the 1933 classic, KING KONG, for example, STAND UP AND CHEER seems to have never played in its entirety on television since the 1960s, and currently is the victim of further butchery. While the Stepin Fetchit segment, in which he encounters a penguin dressed, acting and talking like Jimmy Durante, has been restored, other scenes have been deleted, making the print in circulation since 1984 choppy and confusing. There's one scene in the story in which Baxter says "No" to Fetchit before hearing what he has to say. The violent gags of comedy team of Mitchell and Durant as U.S. senators are either trimmed or completely cut out. I was fortunate to have watched the complete version of STAND UP AND CHEER at a revival theater in New York City in the 1980s. Scenes missing from current prints are Aunt Jemima's introduction to "I'm Laughing," and Nick Foran's introduction to the finale, "We're Out of the Red." 'Skins' Miller, billed as the hillbilly, seen looking for a gal named Sally, bursting into song, "She's Way Up Thar," while Fetchit is out in the mountains with a butterfly net hired to get a hillbilly by Dinwiddie (Nigel Bruce), is completely gone. The closing cast credits is shown on screen in freeze frame and ends abruptly. Originally presented in theaters at 80 minutes, it can now be seen on video cassette (sometimes colorized) and on TV at the 69 minute length. A pity, because those seeing this for the first time today will think this is how it was presented to 1934 audiences, and it wasn't.

    STAND UP AND CHEER, which formerly played on American Movie Classics from 1996 to 2001, can be seen once in a while on the Fox Movie Channel. While no great masterpiece, this is one movie that deserves restoration to its original 80 minute length to be fully appreciated. (**1/2)
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    • Nov 21, 2000

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      • May 4, 1934 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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      • Fox Film Corporation
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    • 1 hour 8 minutes
      • Black and White

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