Rating: NR
Genre: Musical
Release Date: 09/16/2008
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 80 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video

If you're wondering which Warners musical featured the songs "Old King Cole" and "Have You Got Any Castles?," we refer you to Varsity Show. Dick Powell stars as a musical producer, called back to his alma mater to stage the annual college variety show. Uptight dean Walter Catlett is dead set against Powell's "scandalous" form of entertainment. The college kids conspire with Powell to stage their show in an empty Broadway theatre during the off-season. Turns out that Powell has Busby Berkeley under contract; well, he doesn't really, but it is Berkeley who stages the "big show" finale, in a spectacular fashion that would be impossible for any stage, college or professional. Among the costars of Varsity Show are Rosemary Lane as the ingenue, Ted Healy (in his last screen appearance) as comic relief, and Our Gang's "Spanky," here billed more formally under his real name, George McFarland.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Dick Powell - Charles "Chuck" Daly
Fred Waring - Ernie Mason
Priscilla Lane - Betty Bradley
Walter Catlett - Prof. Sylvester Biddle
Ted Healy - William Williams
Rosemary Lane - Barbara "Babs" Steward
Lee Dixon - Johnny "Rubberlegs" Stevens
Mabel Todd - Cuddles
Halliwell Hobbes - Dean Meredith
Edward S. Brophy - Mike Barclay
Emma Dunn - Mrs. Smith
Buck and Bubbles - Themselves
Sterling Holloway - Trout
Roy Atwell - Prof. Washburn
Ben Welden - Hammer

Production:
William Keighley - Director
Louis Edelman - Producer
Richard A. Whiting - Composer
George J. Amy - Editor
Warren B. Duff Sig Herzig Richard Macaulay Jerry Wald - Screen Writer
Busby Berkeley - Choreography
George Barnes - Cinematographer
Sig Herzig - Screen Story
Warren B. Duff - Screen Story
Sol Polito - Cinematographer

Summer Stock
    Judy Garland / NR / 1950

1937 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie