Hold That Co-Ed

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Release date: Sep 16, 1938

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This tuneful campus comedy features aging star John Barrymore as a sly, blustery Southern governor with his eye on the Senate (aka Louisiana's Huey Long). He sees opportunity knocking when he learns how desperate his constituents have become to build their miserable state college football team into winners. He figures that if the team wins, so will he. To this end, he surreptitiously recruits a number of burly professional wrestlers to pose as football players. Unfortunately his chief opponent is running a similar racket with a rival university. When the governor's trickery is revealed on the eve of the big game, things look bleak until a quick-thinking coed shows up to save the day. The story is also titled Hold That Girl.

Cast

John Barrymore
as Governor
George Murphy
as Rusty
Joan Davis
as Lizzie Olsen
Jack Haley
as Wilbur
Marjorie Weaver
as Marjorie
George Barbier
as Breckenridge
Ruth Terry
as Edie
Donald Meek
as Dean Thatcher
Johnny Downs
as Dink
Paul Hurst
as Slapsy
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
as Mike
Frank Sully
as Steve
Brewster Twins
as Themselves
Barbara Brewster
as Herself
Gloria Brewster
as Herself
William 'Billy' Benedict
as Sylvester
Charles C. Wilson
as Coach Burke
Glenn Morris
as Spencer
Charles Williams
as McFinch
John Elliott
as Tremont
Fred Kohler Jr.
as Daly
Doodles Weaver
as Gilks
Carroll Nye
as Announcer
Stanley Andrews
as Belcher
Paul McVey
as Man
Dora Clement
as Miss Weatherby
Russell Hicks
as President
William Benedict
as Sylvester
Clem Bevans
Harry Hayden
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  • Hold That Co-Ed isn't football and it isn't college, but thanks to John Barrymore it is highly acceptable college football comedy, with some lively political satire thrown in.

    Jul 22, 2019 | Full Review…

    Ann Ross

    Maclean's Magazine
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