Million Dollar Legs (1939 film)

Million Dollar Legs
Million Dollar Legs
Directed by	Nick Grinde; Edward Dmytryk (uncredited)
Written by	Richard English; Lewis R. Foster
Produced by	William C. Thomas
Starring	Betty Grable; Jackie Coogan
Cinematography	Harry Fischbeck
Edited by	Arthur P. Schmidt
Music by	John Leipold
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	July 14, 1939;
Running time	65 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Million Dollar Legs is a 1939 American comedy film starring Betty Grable, Jackie Coogan, John Hartley and Donald O'Connor.

The film has no relation to the W. C. Fields movie from seven years earlier also entitled Million Dollar Legs.

Plot synopsis

Freddie Frye, the charming student body president of Middleton College, is struggling to find ways to impress his ex-girlfriend Susie so that she will get back with him. The college is heavily controlled by its rich donors, who only allow traditional sports to be played. Despite this Freddie tries his best to start a rowing team at the college and gets into a conflict with the school administration for his rebellious ways. The team finally has to face down State University as a final test to their skills. ^[1]

Cast

Betty Grable as Carol Parker
John Hartley as Greg Melton Jr.
Buster Crabbe as Coach Jordan (as Larry Crabbe)
Donald O'Connor as Sticky Boone
Jackie Coogan as Russ Simpson
Dorothea Kent as Susie Quinn
Joyce Mathews as Bunny Maxwell
Peter Lind Hayes as Freddie 'Ten-Percent' Fry (as Peter Hayes)
Richard Denning as Hunk Jordan
Phil Warren as Buck Hogan
Edward Arnold Jr. as Blimp Garrett
Thurston Hall as Gregory Melton Sr.
Roy Gordon as Dean Wixby
Matty Kemp as Ed Riggs
William Tracy as Egghead Jackson
William Holden as Graduate Who Says 'Thank You' (uncredited)

Production

Betty Grable and Jackie Coogan were married at the time and had appeared together the previous year playing supporting roles in the musical comedy College Swing starring George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye and Bob Hope. Not long after this film, Twentieth Century-Fox insured Grable's legs for $1 million.^[2]