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Warner Baxter again heads the cast of a Hollywood musical extravaganza of the sort which is steadily encroaching upon the field once monopolized by Florenz Ziegfeld and George White on the legitimate stage. The show is "Stand Up and Cheer" at the Keith's Memorial Theatre on Tremont Street...
Stand Up and Cheer (Fox) contains a penguin dressed to resemble Jimmy Durante; a song called "I'm Laughin'"; a grand finale parade, showing Hollywood chorus boys and girls waving their arms in time to ah anthem called "We're Out of the Red." None of these is any better than it sounds...
Cinemaddicts who do not consider that any performance by a child actress constitutes cruelty to adults may be pleased with the demure wrigglings of four-year-old Shirley Temple. Among other features of Stand Up and Cheer are two U. S. Senators (Mitchell and Durante) who proceed from an argument about the tariff to a slapstick vaudeville tumbling act; a scene in which Stepin Fetchit goes wading in a goldfish bowl hoping to catch a haddock; a pleasing song called "Baby Take...
...plot of Stand Up and Cheer, suggested by Will Rogers, concerns the efforts of a U. S. Secretary of Amusements (Warner Baxter) and his pretty assistant (Madge Evans) to improve the country's morale with government-supervised vaudeville acts. The picture aims to combine spontaneity and grandeur, succeeds in being an erratic and mildly entertaining musicomedy which makes the tedious mistake of harping on Depression...
Shirley Temple is the daughter of a branch manager of California Bank in Santa Monica. Associate Producer Lew Brown, who discovered Jackie Cooper, chose her for Stand Up and Cheer from a group of 200 child actresses who answered a general call. She had already learned to sing by imitating radio crooners. She learned most of her tap-dancing in three weeks on the Fox lot. Blonde and pretty, Shirley Temple signed her own contract with...