Varsity Show (film)
Varsity Show is a 1937 American musical film released by Warner Brothers Warner Bros.. The film was directed by William Keighley from a script by Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay, Warren Duff and Sig Herzig. The movie features songs by Richard A. Whiting and many others. The finale was directed by Busby Berkeley.
Overview
The film follows a group of students at fictional Winfield College who butt heads with their faculty advisor while producing an annual stage show.
Production
In 1937, Fred Waring was approached to play a starring role in this film. He brought his famous glee club, the Pennsylvanians, to the shoot and planned on using the college glee club from Pomona College ("Winfield College" in the movie) for additional singers. When Waring arrived at the campus he found the Glee Club conductor was ill but his replacement was Robert Shaw. Shaw followed Fred Waring, after the movie was finished, to New York. There, Shaw founded the Collegiate Chorale and the Robert Shaw Chorale. Robert Shaw went on to be one of the most important personalities in American choral music in the 20th century.
External links
|
|---|
|
Broadway
pre-Hollywood |
- Holka Polka (chor, 1925)
- The Wild Rose (chor, 1926)
- Lady Do (chor, 1927)
- A Connecticut Yankee (chor, 1927)
- White Eagle (chor, 1927)
- Present Arms (chor, 1928)
- Earl Carroll's Vanities (1928) (chor, 1928)
- Good Boy (chor, 1928)
- Rainbow (chor, 1928)
- Hello, Daddy (chor, 1928)
- Pleasure Bound (chor, 1929)
- A Night in Venice (chor, 1929)
- Broadway Nights (chor, 1929)
- The Street Singer (dir & prod, 1929)
- Nine-Fifteen Revue (chor, 1930)
- The International Review (chor, 1930)
- Sweet and Low (chor, 1930)
|
|---|
|
| 1930s |
- Whoopee! (chor, 1930)
- Kiki (chor, 1931)
- Palmy Days (chor, 1931)
- Flying High (chor, 1931)
- Sky Devils (chor, 1932)
- Girl Crazy (chor, 1932)
- Night World (chor, 1932)
- Bird of Paradise (chor, 1932)
- The Kid From Spain (chor, 1932)
- 42nd Street (chor, 1933)
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (chor, 1933)
- She Had to Say Yes (dir, 1933)
- Footlight Parade (chor, 1933)
- Roman Scandals (chor, 1933)
- Dames (dir mus nmbrs, 1934)
- Fashions of 1934 (chor & dir mus nmbrs, 1934)
- Wonder Bar (chor, 1934)
- Gold Diggers of 1935 (dir & chor, 1935)
- Bright Lights (dir, 1935)
- I Live for Love (dir & chor, 1935)
- In Caliente (chor & dir mus nmbrs, 1935)
- Stars Over Broadway (chor & dir mus nmbrs, 1935)
- Stage Struck (dir, 1936)
- Varsity Show (dir finale, 1937)
- The Singing Marine (chor & dir mus nmbrs, 1937)
- Gold Diggers of 1937 (dir mus nmbrs, 1937)
- The Go Getter (dir, 1937)
- Hollywood Hotel (dir & chor, 1937)
- Men Are Such Fools (dir, 1938)
- Gold Diggers in Paris (chor & dir mus nmbrs, 1938)
- Garden of the Moon (dir, 1938)
- Comet Over Broadway (dir, 1938)
- Broadway Serenade (dir finale, 1939)
- They Made Me a Criminal (dir, 1939)
- Fast and Furious (dir, 1939)
- Babes in Arms (dir, 1939)
- The Wizard of Oz (Scarecrow's dance-cut, 1939)
|
|---|
|
| 1940s |
- Forty Little Mothers (dir, 1940)
- Strike Up The Band (dir, 1940)
- Blonde Inspiration (dir, 1941)
- Lady Be Good (dir mus nmbrs, 1941)
- Ziegfeld Girl (dir mus nmbrs, 1941)
- Babes on Broadway (dir, 1941)
- For Me and My Gal (dir, 1942)
- Calling All Girls (chor & dir mus nmbrs, 1942)
- Born to Sing (dir finale, 1942)
- Cabin in the Sky (dir "Shine" seq, 1943)
- The Gang's All Here (dir & chor, 1943)
- Three Cheers for the Girls (chor, 1943)
- Girl Crazy (dir "I Got Rhythm", 1943)
- All Star Musical Revue (dir mus nmbrs, 1945)
- Cinderella Jones (dir, 1946)
- Romance on the High Seas (chor, 1948)
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game (dir, 1949)
|
|---|
|
| 1950s | |
|---|
|
| 1960s | |
|---|
.jpg)