Varsity Show (film)

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Varsity Show
Directed by William Keighley
Written by Warren Duff (story)
Sig Herzig (story)
Jerry Wald (screenplay)
Reichard Macaulay (screenplay)
Sig Herzig (screenplay)
Warren Duff (screenplay)
Starring Dick Powell
The Pennsylvanians
Ted Healy
Music by M.K. Jerome (uncredited)
Cinematography Sol Polito
George Barnes (finale)
Editing by George Amy
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s) September 4, 1937
Running time 80 min.
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
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Varsity Show is a 1937 feature film from Warner Brothers about a group of students at "Winfield College" who butt heads with their faculty advisor while producing an annual stage show.

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.

This film, however 'kitchy' it maybe, is one of the most important to modern choral music in America. 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 Pamona College ("Winfield College" in the movie) for additional singers. When Mr. Waring arrived at the campus he found the Glee Club conductor was ill but his replacement was a young, entergetic young man named Robert Shaw. Robert Shaw (conductor) followed Fred Waring, after the movie was finished, to New York. There, Mr. Shaw founded the Collegate 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.

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