Stand Up and Cheer!
1934 | 69m | English
Popularity: 0.9 (history)
| Director: | Hamilton MacFadden |
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| Writer: | Lew Brown, Will Rogers, Philip Klein |
| Staring: |
| President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department. | |
| Release Date: | May 04, 1934 |
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| Director: | Hamilton MacFadden |
| Writer: | Lew Brown, Will Rogers, Philip Klein |
| Genres: | Family, Comedy, Music |
| Keywords | underdog, pre-code |
| Production Companies | Fox Film Corporation |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: May 08, 2024 Entered: Apr 25, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Warner Baxter | Lawrence Cromwell |
| Madge Evans | Mary Adams |
| James Dunn | Jimmy Dugan |
| Sylvia Froos | Sylvia Froos |
| John Boles | John Boles |
| Arthur Byron | John Harly |
| Shirley Temple | Shirley Dugan |
| Ralph Morgan | Secretary to President |
| Jimmy Dallas | Boy Scout |
| Tess Gardella | Aunt Jemima |
| Frank Mitchell | Senator Danforth |
| Jack Durant | Senator Short |
| Dick Foran | Nick Foran |
| Nigel Bruce | Eustis Dinwiddle |
| John "Skins" Miller | Hill-Billy |
| Stepin Fetchit | Stepin Fetchit |
| Lew Brown | Voice of Jimmy Durante Penguin (voice, uncredited) |
| Lynn Bari | White House Secretary / Chorine (uncredited) |
| Scotty Beckett | Boy Auditioning for Miss Adams (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Arthur Lange | Original Music Composer |
| Ernest Palmer | Director of Photography |
| Russell Patterson | Art Direction |
| Rita Kaufman | Costume Design |
| Lew Brown | Story, Dialogue |
| Will Rogers | Story |
| Ralph Spence | Dialogue |
| Hamilton MacFadden | Director |
| L. William O'Connell | Director of Photography |
| Margaret Clancey | Editor |
| Gordon Wiles | Art Direction |
| Philip Klein | Story |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Winfield R. Sheehan | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 2 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 2024 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 2024 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 2024 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2024 | 12 | 3 | 12 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Trending Position
This starts off quite promisingly, with a bumbling 'Dinwiddle" (Nigel Bruce) explaining to awaiting reporters just what his job as chief scout for Broadway impresario "Cromwell" (Warner Baxter) actually is. Then, right on cue, his boss arrives by gyro-copter on the White House lawn for a meeting at ... which the President offers him a $100m budget and one year as "Secretary of Amusement". His task? Cheer up the American populace after the misery of the 1920s. He quickly assembles his own cabinet - including "Mary" (Madge Evans) as his minister for children and sets about making us all smile. Sadly, Baxter and Evans - and their predictably evolving affection - feature but sparingly in what is essentially a compendium of just about every style entertainment act around at the time. An early outing for the smiling Shirley Temple is probably most notable, but even she struggles to breath much life into this almost documentary style film that could serve well as an history of what made Americans laugh in the early thirties. Some of the artistes work better than others, but a weak, occasionally politically driven, narrative and an off-form effort from what we do see of Baxter just doesn't really work. It watchable as a nostalgia exercise, but as little else I'm afraid.