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''Good News'' is a 1930 American pre-Code
musical film Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serve merely as brea ...
directed by Nick Grinde, and starring Bessie Love, Cliff Edwards, and Penny Singleton. The film was shot in black-and-white, although the finale was in Multicolor. The film is preserved at the
UCLA Film and Television Archive The UCLA Film & Television Archive is a visual arts organization focused on the preservation, study, and appreciation of film and television, based at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Also a nonprofit exhibition venue, the a ...
. The surviving print lacks the color finale; no footage is known to survive. The film was based on the 1927 stage production of the same name. Another film based on the musical, also called '' Good News'', was released in 1947. By the 1940s, the 1930 production was not shown in the United States due to its Pre-Code content, which included sexual innuendo and lewd suggestive humor.


Plot

College student Connie Lane (Lawlor) falls for campus football star Tom Marlowe (Smith), but his bad grades threaten to make him miss the big game. Professor Kenyon (McGlynn) helps Tom academically, and Tom is able to play in the big game and lead the team to victory.


Cast


Songs

* "He's a Lady's Man" by Lew Brown, B.G. DeSylva, and
Ray Henderson Ray Henderson (born Raymond Brost; December 1, 1896 – December 31, 1970) was an American songwriter. Early life Born in Buffalo, New York, United States, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley. He was o ...
* " The Best Things in Life Are Free" by Lew Brown, B.G. DeSylva, and Ray Henderson * "Varsity Drag" by Lew Brown, B.G. DeSylva, and Ray Henderson * "Good News" by Lew Brown, B.G. DeSylva, and Ray Henderson * "Tait Song" by Lew Brown * "Students Are We" by Lew Brown * "If You're Not Kissing Me" by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown * "Football" by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown * "I Feel Pessimistic" by
J. Russel Robinson Joseph Russel Robinson (July 8, 1892 – September 30, 1963) was an American ragtime, dixieland, and blues pianist and composer who was a member of the Original Dixieland Jass Band. Career Robinson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. In his teen ...
and George Waggner * "I'd Like to Make You Happy" by Reggie Montgomery


Reception

Although it received mixed reviews – deemed "trivial and unreal" by one reviewer and "inferior to the stage production" by another – the cast received positive reviews, particularly Bessie Love.


See also

*
List of early color feature films This is a list of early feature-length color films (including primarily black-and-white films that have one or more color sequences) made up to about 1936, when the Technicolor three-strip process firmly established itself as the major-studio fa ...
* List of incomplete or partially lost films


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