So This Is College
About So This Is College
Eddie (Elliott Nugent) and Biff (Robert Montgomery) are seniors, fraternity brothers, and football players at the University of Southern California. They swear that girls will not come between them, then both fall for Babs Baxter (Sally Starr). Their pranks split them. One is ready to step aside so the other can marry her. At the big game they hear Babs with her fiancé, Bruce, who asks why she is wearing their fraternity pins. She calls the pins meaningless. They win the game, swear off girls, and then notice another one in the park.
Cast & crew
More about So This Is College
Sam Wood directed and produced it. Al Boasberg, Delmer Daves, and Joseph Farnham wrote it. Leonard Smith photographed it and Frank Sullivan edited it. Shooting began 25 March 1929. Campus scenes were made at USC, and the game cuts in newsreel of the 3 November 1928 USC–Stanford match at the Coliseum, which USC won 10–0. MGM released it on 8 November 1929, the New York opening day, as a Movietone picture and also silent. Copyright 1 November 1929 (LP838).
Themes
Look
Leonard Smith photographed the campus scenes and the cut-in of the 1928 Coliseum newsreel.
Music
Martin Broones is credited for the music. The fight song "Cardinal and Gold" is by Al Wesson. A silent version was also released.
Notes
- It is Robert Montgomery's first film.
- Cliff Edwards plays Windy. Phyllis Crane is billed with the leads.
- AFI's silent version is 6,104 feet, with titles by Farnham.
- Wikipedia and AFI disagree on which man steps aside for the marriage. Both agree that Babs is already engaged to Bruce.
- Onscreen music credits name Martin Broones, with interpolations by Fred Fisher, Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages, Charlotte Greenwood, and Al Boasberg. "Cardinal and Gold" is by Al Wesson.
Scenes
- Eddie and Biff both go after Babs after swearing they will not.
- At the game she tells Bruce the two pins mean nothing.
- They win, and the next girl is already in the park.
