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Released January 23, 1945
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
Columbia
67 min. (Feature Film)

Boston socialite Edithea Alden (Ann Miller) is away at college in New York, and unknown to her family and her old-fashioned Aunt Priscilla (Kathleen Howard), spends her nights pursuing a dream of acting. But the only stage job she can find is as a dancer in a Broadway burlesque theater, under the name of Eadie Allen. Theater manager Tommy Foley (William Wright) notices her dancing in the chorus line, and when he promotes her to the top spot, Eadie soon becomes the headlining toast of New York burlesque. This places Eadie in a tough spot, trying to keep her show business career a secret from the college's stuffy Dean Flint. And the ex-star of the show, Rose Allure (Marion Martin), wants to settle a score with Foley and arranges a police raid.

Joe Besser costars as Prof. Diogenes Dingle, an ex-burlesque comic hired as the University's drama professor with false credentials, thanks to his old straightman Jim Tuttle (Jimmy Little), the school's athletic director. Besser and Little dust off an old burlesque standard, and perform the "Buzzing the Bee" routine.

The characters of Diogenes and Jim are producing a Greek musical for the upcoming commencement, and the student dancers are played by The Jack Cole Dancers. The Cole troupe was under contract with Columbia for several years in the mid 1940s, and several of the girls went on to supporting player status with The Three Stooges... Nita Bieber, Gloria Patrice and Ruth Godfrey, the three costars of RHYTHM AND WEEP (1946).

Kathleen Howard ('Aunt Priscilla') is best remembered as W. C. Fields' shrewish wife in IT'S A GIFT (1933) and THE MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE (1934).

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Ann Miller
Eadie Allen

Joe Besser
Prof. Diogenes Dingle

Jimmy Little
Jim Tuttle

William Wright
Tommy Foley

Kathleen Howard
Aunt Priscilla Alden

Marion Martin
Rose Allure

Jeff Donnell
Pamela 'Pepper' Parker

Tom Dugan
Hannegan

Douglas Wood
Dean Flint

Jessie Arnold
Charlotte

Charles C. Wilson
Mitch Berger

Mary Newton
Mrs. Flint

Sarah Edwards
Mrs. Meeker

George Lessey
Reverend Ames

George Meeker
Caleb Van Horn VIII

John Tyrrell
Police Sergeant

Edward Earle
University Board Director

Ernest Hilliard
University Board Director

Forbes Murray
University Board Director

Bess Flowers
Dean's secretary

George Lloyd
Candy butcher

Mildred Law
Student messenger

Betty Hill
Student showgirl

Virginia Hunter
Student showgirl

Wanda Perry
Student showgirl

Judy Malcolm
Student showgirl

Toni Eden
Student showgirl

Jean Foreman
Student showgirl

Kaye Dowd
Student showgirl

Gloria Patrice
Student showgirl

Nita Bieber
Student showgirl

Marilyn Johnson
Student showgirl

Donna Dax
Student showgirl

Jack Cole
Dancer

Harry Semels
Man in burlesque audience

Bobby Barber
Man in burlesque audience


Monte Brice
Story and Screenplay

Burnett Guffey
Director of Photography

James Sweeney
Film Editor

Carl Anderson
Art Director

Louis Diage
Set Decoration

Edward Bernds
Sound Engineer

Morris W. Stoloff
Musical Director

George Duning
Orchestrator

Jack Cole
Choreographer

Ray Nazarro
Assistant Director


















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