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Her hair isn’t yet platinum and her makeup is still more girlish than glamorous, but Lana Turner is nonetheless “a walking acetylene torch” in her first top billing, playing a dancer planted in a big Midwest college to win a rigged Hollywood contest.
The prize: the starring role in a big movie musical. The complications: plenty, especially when the co-ed falls for a crusading college newshound (Richard Carlson) who suspects the contest is as phony as a press agent’s smile.
But the real romance happened the next year when Dancing Co-Ed co-star Artie Shaw—whose swing music is as white-hot as the leading lady’s starpower—took Turner out on their first date. They came back the next day from Las Vegas…married.
Original Release
09/29/1939
US Release
09/29/1939
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Lana Turner | Patty Marlow |
Richard Carlson | 'Pug' Braddock |
Artie Shaw and His Orchestra | Artie Shaw Orchestra |
Artie Shaw | Artie Shaw |
Ann Rutherford | Eve / Eve Greeley |
Lee Bowman | Freddy Tobin |
Thurston Hall | H.W. Workman / Henry W. Workman |
Leon Errol | 'Pops' Marlow / Sam "Pops" Marlow |
Roscoe Karns | Joe Drews |
Mary Field | Miss May / Miss Jennie May |
Directors
Writers
Albert Mannheimer, Albert Treynor, Herbert Fields
Cast
Name | Character |
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Lana Turner | Patty Marlow |
Richard Carlson | 'Pug' Braddock |
Artie Shaw and His Orchestra | Artie Shaw Orchestra |
Artie Shaw | Artie Shaw |
Ann Rutherford | Eve / Eve Greeley |
Lee Bowman | Freddy Tobin |
Thurston Hall | H.W. Workman / Henry W. Workman |
Leon Errol | 'Pops' Marlow / Sam "Pops" Marlow |
Roscoe Karns | Joe Drews |
Mary Field | Miss May / Miss Jennie May |
Walter Kingsford | President Cavendish |
Mary Beth Hughes | 'Toddy' / "Toddy" Tobin |
June Preisser | 'Ticky' James / "Ticky" James |
Monty Woolley | Professor Lange |
Chester Clute | Braddock |
Edward Arnold Jr. | Student |
Georgie Auld | Tenor Saxophonist |
Alexander Albert Avola | Guitarist |
King Baggot | Man in Casting Office |
Benny Baker | Chief Evans |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Edgar Selwyn | Producer |