Sun 2 Nov 2025
Archived Movie Review: PIGSKIN PARADE (1936).
Posted by Steve under Films: Comedy/Musicals , Reviews[2] Comments
PIGSKIN PARADE. 20th Century Fox, 1936. Stuart Erwin, Patsy Kelly, Jack Haley, The Yacht Club Boys, Betty Grable, Judy Garland, Tony Martin, Elisha Cook Jr., Lynn Bari, Alan Ladd. Director: David Butler.
When Yale mistakenly challenges a small Texas college in a game of football, the outcome is a foregone conclusion. It is, that is, until the school with an enrollment of only 700 recruits a hillbilly with an arm like a rifle, straight from a melon patch.
Lots of singing and dancing, Although he doesn’t appear until the second half of the movie, Stu Erwin manages to get star billing as the team’s new quarterback. Judy Garland, who plays his sister, makes a smash movie debut – stealing the show as a 15-year-old.
— Reprinted from Movie.File.2, April 1988.
November 3rd, 2025 at 12:47 am
With that cast, it sounds like the sort of film MGM did well and Paramount did better.
November 3rd, 2025 at 12:02 pm
I remember this one only vaguely. Given a free moment this week, I’m planning to watch it again, this time thanks to the video on YouTube. You’re right about the cast, though, I can tell you that even before then. (I believe Lynn Bari and Alan Ladd had only small, non-credited roles.)