Stand Up and Cheer!

Stand Up and Cheer!


Fox Films, 1934, B/W, 69 minutes, **½

Released May, 1934



Shirley Temple helps get the country out of the red in this Depression-era comedy that recommends laughter as an antidote for despair. With America's economy at a standstill, the President creates the cabinet post of Secretary of Amusement and charges his new appointee with entertaining the country so everyone will forget their troubles. After all, as the President says, "any people blessed with a sense of humor can achieve success and victory." But certain businessmen who are getting rich off the misery of others try to sabotage this effort by launching a smear campaign to discredit the entire idea. Shirley does her part as little Shirley Dugan, who has a song and dance act with her father (James Dunn). When she takes center stage in the film's big production number, "Baby, Take a Bow," she'll make you want to Stand Up and Cheer!


Stepin Fetchit's scene with the penguin is a show-stopper!


Produced by: Winfield Sheehan

Associate Producer and Collaborator on Story and Dialogue: Lew Brown

Directed by: Hamilton MacFadden

Story Idea Suggested by: Will Rogers and Philip Klein

Dialogue: Ralph Spence

Lyrics: Lew Brown

Music: Lew Brown and Jay Gorney

Musical Director: Arthur Lange

Dances Staged by: Sammy Lee

Art Settings: Gordon Wiles and Russell Patterson

Costumes: Rita Kaufman

Sound: E. F. Grossman

Photography: Ernest Palmer and L. W. O'Connell

Film Editing: Margaret Clancey



Cast: Warner Baxter [Lawrence Cromwell], Madge Evans [Mary Adams], Shirley Temple [Specialty], Sylvia Froos [Specialty], John Boles [Specialty], James Dunn [Dugan], "Aunt Jemima" [Aunt Jemima], Arthur Byron [Harley], Ralph Morgan [President's Secretary], Nick Foran [Specialty], Nigel Bruce [Eustace Dinwiddie], Mitchell & Durant [Senators Danforth and Short], "Skins" Miller [Hillbilly], Stepin Fetchit [George Bernard Shaw], Additional Cast: Frank Melton [Fosdick], Lila Lee [Zelda], Jimmy Dallas [Specialty Numbers], Frances Morris, Lurene Tuttle, Dorothy Gulliver, Bess Flowers, Lillian West [Stenographers], Selmer Jackson, Clyde Dilson [Correspondents], Edward Earle [Secret Service Man], Gayne Whitman [Voice of President], Frank Sheridan, Paul Stanton, Wallis Clark, Arthur Stuart Hull [Senators], Si Jenks [Rube Farmer], Aggie Herring [Irish Washerwoman], Phil Tead [Vaudevillian], The Randall Sisters [Trio], George K. Arthur [Dance Director], Baby Alice Raetz [Child Bit], Ruth Beckett [Child's Mother], Bobby Caldwell [General Lee], Wilbur Mack [Beamish], Elspeth Dudgeon, Jessie Perry, Harry Northrup [Reformers], John Davidson [Sour Radio Announcer], Harry Dunkinson, Gilbert Clayton, Herbert Prior, Carl Stockdale [Quartette], Lucien Littlefield [Prof. Hi De Ho], Arthur Loft, Jack Richardson, Dagmar Oakland, Vivian Winston [Bits], Joe Smith Marba [Elephant Trainer], Carlton Griffin, Paul McVey, Roland Ray, Reginald Simpson [Secretaries], Arthur Vinton [Turner], Sam Hayes [Radio Announcer], Tina Marshall [Boy's Mother], Dora Clement, Peggy Watts, Dorothy Dehn, Ruth Clifford [Secretaries], Glen Walters [Hillbilly's Wife], Lew Brown, Patricia Lee, Guy Usher, Lynn Bari, Morris Ankrum, Scotty Beckett [Specialties]



Musical Program: [0:00] Overture (played by Orchestra behind titles); [0:11] I'm Laughin' (sung by Dick Foran and montage of workers, ending with "Aunt Jemima" and Chorus); [0:16] We Are the Roman Soldiers (Childrens Chorus, including Scotty Beckett); [0:24] Baby Take a Bow (sung and danced by James Dunn, Shirley Temple and Chorus); [0:39] Broadway's Gone Hillbilly (sung and danced by Sylvia Froos, The Randall Sisters and Chorus); [0:49] This Is Our Last Night Together (John Boles and Sylvia Foos); [1:03] We're Out of the Red (sung by Dick Foran, sung and marched by Parade Ensemble); [1:08] Stand Up and Cheer (Dick Foran behind end titles)