Fine Art of Boxing, The (No Stooge in the Ring)
Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra, and pianist Bob Saunders, are on the 7-year college plan and happy to flunk out again if they can make it to 8. They'd rather spend their evenings jamming at Pops' (Shemp Howard) soda shop. Bob's father has had enough, and sends his son out west to the family's Circle S Health Ranch to learn business management from the resort's officious and prissy manager Mr. Cathcart (Franklin Pangborn). Bob decides that Ozzie, the band and Pops, should go with him and turn the Circle S into a jumping success. The neighboring Arizona Ranch, run by Sally Monroe, is going out of business. Bob falls in love with Sally, and when he learns that he can't change his father's ideas, the orchestra and Pops head for the Arizona with plans to turn it into a country swing nightclub. Pops takes on the job of convincing (or, conning) a cantankerous rancher (Leon Errol) to sponsor a radio broadcast for the Nelson band.
Shemp Howard costars as Pops, and steals every scene he's in (which is most of them), even upstaging Leon Errol.

Ozzie Nelson
Ozzie Nelson

Richard Davies
Bob Saunders

Mary Healy
Sally Monroe

Shemp Howard
Pops

Leon Errol
Carter Durham

Grace McDonald
Dixie

Eddie Johnson
Skat Foster

Martha Tilton
Herself

Russell Hicks
R. C. Saunders

Franklin Pangborn
Mr. Cathcart

Tim Ryan
Professor Blake

Charles Lang
Russ Monroe

Jimmy Wakely
Jimmy Wakely and His Cowboy Band

Dick Reinhart
Jimmy Wakely and His Cowboy Band

Johnny Bond
Jimmy Wakely and His Cowboy Band

Oscar Loraine
Chef

Joey Ray
Waiter

Jimmie Lucas
Waiter

Ralph Dunn
Big Boy

Helen Deverell
Pearl

Caroline Cooke
Dowager

Neely Edwards
Angry man

Charles R. Moore
Cactus

Frances Morris
Switchboard operator

Drew Demorest
Circle S desk clerk

Jack Gardner
Arizona desk clerk

The Dinning Sisters
Themselves

Leo Diamond and the Diamond Solidaires
Themselves

Jimmie Davis
Himself

Kenny Stevens
Himself

Holmes Herbert
Commissioner

Lloyd Ingraham
McClelland

Gerald Pierce
Bellhop

Francis Sayles
Hotel guest

Grace Lenard
Woman

Vernon Keays
Director

Joseph Gershenson
Assoc. Producer

Warren Wilson
Original Screenplay

Kenneth Higgins
Original Screenplay

John Boyle
Director of Photography

Edward Curtiss
Film Editor

Jack Otterson
Art Director

Ralph M. DeLacy
Associate Art Director

Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration

Bernard B. Brown
Sound Director

Joe Lapis
Sound Technician

Charles Previn
Musical Director

Harold Adamson
Music and Lyrics

Jimmie Davis
Music and Lyrics

Gene Autry
Music

Bob Nolan
Music

Lou Wayne
Music

Fred Rose
Lyrics

Floyd Tillman
Lyrics

Charles Mitchell
Lyrics

John Mattison
Dance Director

Vera West
Gowns
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