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Stand Up and Cheer! made Shirley Temple a star. Stand Up and Cheer! is a 1934 American Pre-Code musical film directed by Hamilton MacFadden. The screenplay by Lew Brown and Ralph Spence was based upon a story idea by Will Rogers and Philip Klein. The film is about efforts undertaken during the Great Depression to boost the morale of the country.
The role that launched her feature film career was a short song-and-dance sequence in the 1934 movie Stand Up and Cheer! for Fox Film, with James Dunn as her father. Her performance impressed studio executives so much that they immediately cast the duo in a follow-up film, Baby Take a Bow, with Temple again playing Dunn's daughter. [2]
Marianne Edwards (December 9, 1930 – November 8, 2013) was an American child actress who appeared in the Our Gang film series from 1934 to 1936. She also appeared in several feature films in the 1930s, including Gold Diggers Of 1933, Babes In Toyland, and Stand Up and Cheer!.
Dunn and Shirley Temple in a publicity photo for Bright Eyes (1934) In 1934, Dunn appeared in seven films for Fox. Three of them were also the first three film appearances of six-year-old Shirley Temple. [24] In Stand Up and Cheer!, Dunn and Temple play a father and daughter who perform in one song-and-dance sequence.
Fox executives rushed her into another film with Dunn, Baby Take a Bow (named after their song in Stand Up and Cheer!). Temple's third film, also with Dunn, was Bright Eyes (1934), a movie written especially for her. [32] After the success of her first three films, Temple's parents realized that she was not being paid sufficiently.
George White's Scandals (1934) as Child (uncredited) Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) as Boy Auditioning for Miss Adams (uncredited) Whom the Gods Destroy (1934) as Jack Forrester, Age 4; Romance in the Rain (1934) as Child Specialty; Babes in Toyland (1934) as Schoolboy (uncredited) Sailor Made Widow (1934) Dante's Inferno (1935) as Alexander Carter
Cover Images Actress Susan Buckner, best known for playing cheerleader Patty Simcox in the 1978 film Grease, has died at age 72. “It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of ...
Stand Up and Cheer may refer to: Stand Up and Cheer!, a 1934 film featuring Shirley Temple "Stand Up and Cheer" (song), a school fight song; Stand Up and Cheer, a 1970s American syndicated television variety show