Student Tour Movie

Student Tour
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Run Time: 87 min
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Released: 1934
Directors: Charles "Chuck" Riesner
Genre/Type: Comedy
Musical
Producers: Monta Bell
Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Student Tour looks like an MGM musical two-reeler that was expanded to feature length as it went along. Charles Butterworth and Jimmy Durante are teamed respectively as fey philosophy professor Lippincott and brash athletic coach Hank. The two comics shepherd a co-ed college rowing team on a world tour, with orders to keep the team's rowdy captain Bobby (Phil Regan) out of trouble. Lackluster leading lady Maxine Doyle co-stars as Ann, a plain-jane who takes off her glasses at a Monte Carlo masquerade ball and wins BMOC Bobby for her very own. Ann also brings the story to a rousing conclusion by substituting for the cockswain in the climatic rowing race, urging the team to victory with a peppy song-and-dance. Nelson Eddy also shows up to sing "The Carlo," a pulsating number obviously inspired by "Bolero." The film's giddy highlight is "Taj Mahal," in which a group of pretty students (including a young Betty Grable) go swimming in the pool of the famous Indian shrine! According to studio publicity, a crop of genuine college coeds were hired to play the students in Student Tour, but to the trained eye they sure look like standard Hollywood extras and bit players.

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Cast

Actors Character Born
Jimmy Durante Hank Feb 10, 1893 in New York City, NY
Charles Butterworth Prof. Lippincott Jul 26, 1896 in South Bend, IN
Maxine Doyle Ann Lippincott Jan 1, 1915 in San Francisco, CA
Phil Regan Bobby May 28, 1906 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY
Florine McKinney Lilith
Douglas Fowley Mushy May 30, 1911 in New York City, NY
Monte Blue Jeff Jan 11, 1890 in Indianapolis, IN
Betty Grable Cayenne Dec 18, 1916 in South St. Louis, MO
Fay McKenzie Mary Lou Feb 19, 1918 in Hollywood, CA
Bobby Gordon Jakie Aug 21, 1913 in Pittsburgh, PA
Mary Loos Dolores
Pauline Brooks Peggy
Herman Brix Hercules May 19, 1906 in Tacoma, WA
Nelson Eddy Student Jun 29, 1901 in Providence, RI
Lawrence Wheat Businessman
Arthur Wanzer Elderly Man
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Review by Hans J. Wollstein
Charles Butterworth is his usual befuddled self in Student Tour, a little MGM filler that is utterly harmless and eminently forgettable. In addition to Butterworth's patented schtick, Maxine Doyle removes her spectacles and proves to be the looker we suspected all along; a very young Betty Grable does her cheesecake bit; a gaggle of overripe movie hopefuls pretends to be teenagers; and Jimmy Durante says funny things like "Sleep is a matter of mind over mattress." The director of the piece used to hang out with Charles Chaplin, but there isn't much Chaplin about this particular Student Tour.
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