Freshman Love

Freshman Love is a 1936 American musical comedy film based on George Ade's oft filmed 1904 play The College Widow, adaptations of which were filmed twice previously, in 1915 and 1927, and parodied by the Marx Brothers in their 1932 film Horse Feathers. This version is directed by William C. McGann and is a comedy-musical starring Patricia Ellis.

This is Lloyd Bridges' first film.

A print is preserved at the Library of Congress.

Plot

Male students are tricked into joining Billings College's rowing team when the coach, Speed Hammond, is able to persuade the school president's attractive daughter, Joan Simpkins, to recruit them.

Bob Wilson is one of the rowers, but due to a problem with his grades, he ends up enrolling under a phony name. Adversaries try everything, even music, to distract the Billings crew during the big race, but the team holds on for victory.

Cast

Patricia Ellis as Joan Simpkins

Warren Hull as Bob Wilson

Frank McHugh as Coach Speed Hammond

Mary Treen as Squirmy

Joseph Cawthorne (as Joseph Cawthorn) as Bob Wilson, Sr. Z

Alma Lloyd as Sandra

George E. Stone as E. Predergast Biddle

Henry O'Neill as President Simpkins

Anita Kerry as Princess Oggi

Johnny Arthur as Fields

Walter Johnson as Tony Foster

Joseph Sawyer as Coach Kendall

Florence Fair as Mrs. Norton

Spec O'Donnell as Eddie

Joseph King as Terry Biddle

William Moore as Editor

Ben Hall as Goofy freshman

Nestor Aber as Third goof

Bill Carew as Student at soda fountain

uncredited

Lloyd Bridges

William Carey

Virginia Dabney - Co-Ed

Don Downen - Second Goof

Jerry Fletcher - Leader of Tango Band

Tommy Hicks - College Boy

Robert Emmett Keane - Announcer

Joe King - Terry Biddle

Edmund Mortimer - Henderson

George Noisom - Harmonica Player

Broderick O'Farrell - Member of Board of Trustees

Peter Potter - Vindicator Editor

Dick Purcell - Radio Announcer

Harry Seymour - Oggi's Barker

Michael Stuart - Third Goof

Fred "Snowflake" Toones - Mose

Ruth Warren - Marie, Housemother

Jack Wise - Oggi's Attendant

Sam Wolfe - Harmonica Player

Jane Wyman - Co-Ed

References

External links

Freshman Love at IMDb.com

allmovie/synopsis

1936 films

Warner Bros. films

American football films

American films based on plays

1936 musical comedy films

American black-and-white films

American musical comedy films

Films set in universities and colleges

Rowing films

1930s English-language films

Films directed by William C. McGann

1930s American films