- The Under-Pup
Infobox Film
name = The Under-Pup
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director = Richard Wallace
producer =Joe Pasternak
writer =Grover Jones (screenplay)
I. A. R. Wylie (story)
starring =Gloria Jean Robert Cummings
music = Charles Previn
cinematography =Hal Mohr
editing = Frank Gross
distributor =Universal Pictures
released =September 1 ,1939
runtime = 88 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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followed_by = "A Little Bit of Heaven"
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imdb_id = 0032075"The Under-Pup" is the 1939 feature film that introduced soprano singing star
Gloria Jean to the screen. The story, adapted byGrover Jones from a magazine story by Australian author I. A. R. Wylie, casts Gloria as a streetwise girl who is sent to a summer camp for wealthy girls. She is first bullied by the other girls, but decides to stand up for herself.The film was well received, and was followed by an unofficial sequel, "A Little Bit of Heaven" (1940). Many of the cast members from "The Under-Pup" appear in the second film, but with different character names.
Cast
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Gloria Jean - Pip-Emma Binns
*Robert Cummings - Dennis Lane
*Nan Grey - Priscilla Adams
*C. Aubrey Smith - Grandpa
*Beulah Bondi - Miss Thornton
*Virginia Weidler - Janet Cooper
*Margaret Lindsay - Mrs. Cooper
*Raymond Walburn - Mr. Layton
*Ann Gillis - Letty Lou
*Paul Cavanagh - Mr. Franklin Cooper
*Billy Gilbert - Tolio
*Shirley Mills - Cecilia Layton
*Doris Lloyd - Mrs. Binns
*Dickie Moore - Jerry Binns
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