Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly
79 min. (Feature Film)
Film star Ted Crosley is fed up with Hollywood and quits the movies to enroll in college under a false name, but his manager tips off the press and the school. Ted falls in love with the Dean's daughter Jean, and gets into a rivalry with the school's football hero Biff (Broderick Crawford). While Ted tries to fit in, his managers (Walter Connolly and Jimmy Durante) scheme to have him thrown out so he can return to his Hollywood career.
The Stooges play campus firemen at Midland College.
The most common START CHEERING publicity stills featuring the Stooges show them as the campus firemen, clowning around in the Midland College firehouse. But those scenes were never included in the film, deleted before the final release.
Stooge supporting players Vernon Dent, Eddie Fetherston and Lew Davis each appear in two different roles.
Costar Joan Perry later married Columbia chief Harry Cohn.
Jimmy Durante
Willie Gumbatz
Walter Connolly
Sam Lewis
Charles Starrett
Ted Crosley
Joan Perry
Jean Worthington
Raymond Walburn
Dean Worthington
Broderick Crawford
Biff Gordon
Ernest Truex
Blodgett
Gertrude Niesen
Sarah
Gene Morgan
Coach Burns
Moe Howard
Moe
Larry Fine
Larry
Jerry Howard
Curly
Minerva Urecal
Miss Grimley
Chaz Chase
Shorty
Romo Vincent
Fatso
Johnny Green and His Orchestra
Themselves
Hal LeRoy
Tarzan Biddle
Louis Prima and His Orchestra
Themselves
Jimmy Wallington
Himself, sportscaster in football movie
Lew Davis
'Team doctor' in football movie
Clifton Young
'Bench player' in football movie
Arthur Loft
J. G. Green
Ann Doran
Green's secretary
Harold Goodwin
Director
Stanley Mack
Empire Studios writer
Carlton Griffin
Assistant Director
Bruce Sidney
Empire Studios executive
Vernon Dent
Empire Studios executive
Billy Arnold
Empire Studios executive
Edward LeSaint
First board overseer
Lloyd Whitlock
Second board overseer
Howard C. Hickman
Dr. Fosdick
Don Brodie
Worthington's secretary
Wedgwood Nowell
Board overseer
C. Montague Shaw
Dr. Atwell, overseer
Charles R. Moore
Porter
Lew Davis
Candy butcher
Gus Reed
Conductor
Arthur Stuart Hull
Passenger with luggage
Ed McCabe
Reporter
Bill Wallace
Photographer
Al Rhein
Photographer
Charles Conrad
Photographer
Edith Craig
Peggy
Virginia Dale
Mabel
Lucille Lund
Flossie
Charles Hamilton
Assistant Coach
Russ Clark
Football trainer
Arthur Hoyt
Librarian
Vernon Dent
Pops
Frank Sully
Jimmy
Craig E. Earle
Professor Quiz
Bill Gaiver
Referee
Lane Chandler
Field judge
Harold Schlickenmayer
Referee
Jim Thorpe
Linesman
Nick Lukats
Himself
John Gallaudet
Sportscaster
Dick Elliott
Station agent
Eddie Fetherston
Man at water fountain
James Flavin
Gas station attendant
Garry Owen
Gas station attendant
Ray Johnson
Gas station attendant
Frank Melton
Gas station attendant
Ted Oliver
Motorcycle cop
Eddie Fetherston
Man setting up microphone
John Shelton
Student
Robert McClung
Student
Jeff York
Student
House Peters Jr.
Student
Bruce Warren
Student
Jerry Bergen
Student
Dick Sheldon
Student
Carol Wyndham
Student
Ruth Hilliard
Student
William Stelling
Student
Dean Kaye
Student
Jane Hamilton
Student
Wes Clark
Student
Nadine Dore
Student
June Ward
Student
Dorothy Short
Student
Claire Rochelle
Student
Grant Peters
Student
Dutch Hendrian
Student
Dorothy Dean
Student
Alexandria Dean
Student
Mary Blackwood
Student
Phillips Smalley
Professor
Phil Baker
Himself
Al St. John
Station master
Frank C. Wilson
Publicity agent
Jack Clifford
Car owner
Barney Dean
Taxi driver
Albert S. Rogell
Director
Nat Perrin
Producer
Corey Ford
Story
Eugene Solow
Screenplay
Richard E. Wormser
Screenplay
Philip Rapp
Screenplay
Joseph Walker
Photography
Gene Havlick
Film Editor
Stephen Goosson
Art Director
Lionel Banks
Assoc. Art Director
Babs Johnstone
Set Decoration
Robert Kalloch
Gowns
Morris W. Stoloff
Musical Director
Johnny Green
Music
Ben Oakland
Music
George Parrish
Music
Sam Pokrass
Music
Ted Koehler
Lyrics
Charles Tobias
Lyrics
Jimmy Durante
Lyrics
Phil Baker
Lyrics
Milton Drake
Lyrics
Danny Dare
Dance Numbers
Ganahl Carson
Special Camera Effects
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