Wednesday, February 27, 2013

All-American Co-Ed (1941)


Academy Awards, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1942 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Song
Norlin, Lloyd B.
For the song "Out of the Silence".
Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture
Edward Ward

United Artists
Directed by LeRoy Prinz
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

It starts with a great joke during the opening credits: all of those bare dancing legs you assume belong to showgirls actually are men in drag. Unfortunately it is basically a one joke plot, extended to almost an hour. The dancing men of "Quinceton" are slighted by a nearby sorority at another college. One of them decides to apply to the school as a woman and discredit them. If you make it to the end, you will behold the wondrous dancing corn-on-the-cob and other nature-oriented costumes.

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