A burlesque dancer goes to college, where she romances a professor and helps put on a musical show.A burlesque dancer goes to college, where she romances a professor and helps put on a musical show.A burlesque dancer goes to college, where she romances a professor and helps put on a musical show.
Ramon Blackburn
- Specialty Dancer
- (as The Blackburn Twins)
Royce Blackburn
- Specialty Dancer
- (as The Blackburn Twins)
Jimmy Ames
- Man in Burlesque Theatre Box
- (uncredited)
Bette Arlen
- Chorus Girl
- (uncredited)
Jessie Arnold
- Wardrobe Woman
- (uncredited)
John Brascia
- Student
- (uncredited)
Tex Brodus
- Student in Show
- (uncredited)
Jimmy Brooks
- Student in Show
- (uncredited)
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- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaVirginia Mayo's favorite of her own movies.
- Quotes
Prof. John Palmer: I don't know what there is about the pelts of dead little animals that makes 'em so attractive to women, when one little mouse scares 'em silly.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Spies Like Us (1985)
- SoundtracksWith Plenty of Money and You
(uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Performed and Danced by Virginia Mayo (dubbed by Bonnie Lou Williams) and Chorus
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Social Commentary Deleted
All the social commentary that James Thurber wrote in The Male Animal about academic freedom has been deleted in this scrubbed version of that classic. She's Working Her Way Through College comes out as a rather insipid, but pleasant musical where singing and dancing is taken care of by Virginia Mayo and Gene Nelson. Ronald Reagan in the part that Henry Fonda played of the college professor is defending the right of former burlesque performer Virginia Mayo to attend class and star in a musical show the college is putting on.
Back in the day Mayo was known as 'Hot Garters Gertie' on the stage and all she wants to do is attend college quietly. But when Nelson who was formerly going out with Patrice Wymore starts paying attention to Mayo, Wymore finds out who she is and blows her cover. Which comes to the attention of chair of the board of directors Roland Winters who wants her expelled from the college. He puts it on Reagan's shoulders to do the job.
It was the age of McCarthyism and the original story which dealt with Henry Fonda reading a letter from the jailed Bartolomeo Vanzetti would never have been made at Warner Brothers at that point. And Ronald Reagan who as Governor of California would clash on academic freedom with the Berkeley Free Speech movement is still in an ironic position defending freedom for Mayo to attend college. But Reagan who fought communists in his union, the Screen Actors Guild would never have played the part as originally written and this is before his political career. And Virginia Mayo was also quite the conservative lady in her time as well.
One part of the film is retained where Don DeFore takes Jack Carson's role as the All American football alumnus who was a rival for Reagan for his wife Phyllis Thaxter. Reagan does repeat and does it well, Henry Fonda's drunk scene from The Male Animal.
She's Working Her Way Through College is pleasant enough, but not anything special and Thurber aficionados will not be pleased.
Back in the day Mayo was known as 'Hot Garters Gertie' on the stage and all she wants to do is attend college quietly. But when Nelson who was formerly going out with Patrice Wymore starts paying attention to Mayo, Wymore finds out who she is and blows her cover. Which comes to the attention of chair of the board of directors Roland Winters who wants her expelled from the college. He puts it on Reagan's shoulders to do the job.
It was the age of McCarthyism and the original story which dealt with Henry Fonda reading a letter from the jailed Bartolomeo Vanzetti would never have been made at Warner Brothers at that point. And Ronald Reagan who as Governor of California would clash on academic freedom with the Berkeley Free Speech movement is still in an ironic position defending freedom for Mayo to attend college. But Reagan who fought communists in his union, the Screen Actors Guild would never have played the part as originally written and this is before his political career. And Virginia Mayo was also quite the conservative lady in her time as well.
One part of the film is retained where Don DeFore takes Jack Carson's role as the All American football alumnus who was a rival for Reagan for his wife Phyllis Thaxter. Reagan does repeat and does it well, Henry Fonda's drunk scene from The Male Animal.
She's Working Her Way Through College is pleasant enough, but not anything special and Thurber aficionados will not be pleased.
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