Pigskin Parade (film)

Pigskin Parade is a 1936 musical comedy film which tells the story of husband and wife college football coaches who convince a backwoods player to play for their team so they can go to the big Bowl Game. It was written by William M. Conselman, Mark Kelly, Nat Perrin, Arthur Sheekman, Harry Tugend and Jack Yellen, and was directed by David Butler. The cast includes Stuart Erwin, Dixie Dunbar, Betty Grable, Jack Haley, Patsy Kelly and, in her feature film debut, 14-year-old Judy Garland.

Plot

Due to a misunderstanding, Yale inadvertently invites the small Texas State University to play their football team for a benefit game. Coincidentally, TSU has just hired a new coach Jack Haley who arrives at the college with his wife (Patsy Kelly) just in time to hear the announcement that the team is to play Yale. The coach digs in to whip the team into shape, but just before the big game, the quarterback breaks his leg. All seems hopeless until they stumble across an Arkansas hillbilly, played by Stuart Erwin, who throws a football like no one they've ever seen. The only problem remaining is to figure a way to get the college to enroll the hillbilly so that he can take the place of the injured quarterback.^[1]

University in film

The university in the film, Texas State University, is fictional; the real-life Texas State University did not receive that name until 2003. The logo on the football players' uniforms resembles the long-time logo of Texas A&M University.

Award nominations

References

1. ^ Pigskin Parade page on The Judy Garland Database, by Jim Johnson

External links

• Pigskin Parade at the Internet Movie Database
• Pigskin Parade at AllRovi
• Pigskin Parade at the TCM Movie Database
• Pigskin Parade at Rotten Tomatoes