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Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Hamilton MacFadden and produced by Winfield R. Sheehan and Lew Brown.

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Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)

By Beatrice on Apr 22, 2013 From Flickers in Time

Stand Up and Cheer! Directed by Hamilton MacFadden 1934/USA Fox Film Corporation First viewing? The President decides to improve morale during the Depression by creating a Department of Amusement headed by Secretary Lawrence Cromwell (Warner Baxter).  Cromwell selects Mary Adams (Madge Evans) to ... Read full article

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Stand Up and Cheer! Facts
Debut of Lurene Tuttle.
Tess Gardella who appears in a "specialty number" in the film, and Sammy Lee, who choreographed it, previously worked together in both the 1927 original Broadway version of "Show Boat" and the 1932 revival. Tess Gardella, in blackface, played the African-American cook Queenie in both productions, which Lee choreographed.
Shirley Temple was cast in this movie because of a chance meeting with Jay Gorney at a movie theater; Gorney noticed Temple dancing in the lobby and arranged with an audition with her.
For the "Baby, Take a Bow" number with James Dunn, the studio felt it would be easier for Shirley Temple to do the dance she had done at her audition rather than learn a new one, so Temple spent her first day on the set giving Dunn dancing lessons.
The dress that Shirley Temple wore during the "Baby, Take a Bow" number (a white organza with red polka-dots and a full skirt that became her trademark) was her own. Her mother, Gertrude Temple, thought that she would feel more comfortable wearing one of her own dresses, rather than one from the costume department.
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