Queen High
{{short description|1930 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Queen High
| image = Queen High - 1930 Title Card.jpg
| caption = Film title card
| director = Fred C. Newmeyer
| producer = Frank Mandel
Laurence Schwab
| writer = Musical play (Queen High):
Buddy G. DeSylva
Lewis E. Gensler
Laurence Schwab
| narrator =
| starring = Charlie Ruggles
Frank Morgan
Ginger Rogers
| music = Al Goodman
Johnny Green
| cinematography = William O. Steiner
| editing = Barney Rogan
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1930|08|23}}
| runtime = 85 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English}}
Queen High is the title of an American pre-Code musical comedy film, produced by Paramount Pictures in 1930. Based upon the 1926 stage musical Queen High that Buddy DeSylva, Lewis Gensler, and Laurence Schwab had adapted from Edward Peple's 1914 farce A Pair of Sixes.
The film stars Charlie Ruggles, Frank Morgan, and Ginger Rogers in one of her earliest film appearances. Making her first film appearance in an uncredited bit part is tap dancer Eleanor Powell, whose career in musicals would not take off for another five years. Powell was appearing on Broadway in a show entitled Follow Thru at the time, and a segment of the show was filmed for the movie. Both Rogers and Powell were still in their teens.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}} Principal photography took place in Astoria Studios in Queens.{{cite book |author1=Edwin M. Bradley |title=Unsung Hollywood Musicals of the Golden Era: 50 Overlooked Films and Their Stars, 1929-1939 |date=2016 |publisher=Mcfarland |isbn=9781476624006 |page=34}}
Plot
A rivalry between two businessmen results in a game of poker. Whoever loses the game becomes the winner's servant for a year.
Cast
- Charles Ruggles as T. Boggs Johns
- Frank Morgan as Mr. Nettleton
- Ginger Rogers as Polly Rockwell
- Stanley Smith as Dick Johns
- Helen Carrington as Mrs. Nettleton
- Rudolph Cameron as Cyrus Vanderholt
- Betty Garde as Florence Cole
- Teresa Maxwell-Conover as Mrs. Rockwell
- Nina Olivette as Coddles
- Tom Brown as Jimmy
- Eleanor Powell (as uncredited dancer)
Soundtrack
- "Everything Will Happen for the Best"
:Written by Buddy G. DeSylva and Lewis E. Gensler
- "Brother, Just Laugh It Off"
:Written by Arthur Schwartz and Ralph Rainger
- "I'm Afraid of You"
:Written by Arthur Schwartz and Ralph Rainger
- "It Seems to Me"
:Written by Howard Dietz (as Dick Howard) and Ralph Rainger
- "I Love the Girls in My Own Peculiar Way"
:Written by E.Y. Harburg and Henry Souvaine
Preservation
Though part of the 700 or so films Paramount sold to Universal, the film is preserved in the Library of Congress with a copy.Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress (<-book title) p.147 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0021279|title=Queen High}}
{{Fred C. Newmeyer}}
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Fred C. Newmeyer
Category:1930 musical comedy films
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:American musical comedy films
Category:Films shot at Astoria Studios
Category:English-language musical comedy films
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