Pigskin Parade (film)

Infobox Film
name = Pigskin Parade


caption = Promotional movie poster for the film
director = David Butler
producer = Bogart Rogers
Darryl F. Zanuck
writer = William M. Conselman
Mary Kelly
Nat Perrin
Arthur Sheekman
Harry Tugend
Jack Yellen
starring = Stuart Erwin
Patsy Kelly
Jack Haley
Betty Grable
Judy Garland
music = David Buttolph
cinematography = Arthur C. Miller
editing = Irene Morra
released = flagicon|US October 23, 1936
runtime = 93 min.
country = USA
language = English
imdb_id = 0028103 Pigskin Parade is a 1936 musical comedy film which tells the story of husband and wife college football coaches who convince a backwoods player to play for their team so they can go to the big Bowl Game. It was written by William M. Conselman, Mark Kelly, Nat Perrin, Arthur Sheekman, Harry Tugend and Jack Yellen, and was directed by David Butler.

Plot

Due to a misunderstanding, Yale inadvertently invites the small Texas State University to play their football team for a benefit game. Coincidentally, TSU has just hired a new coach Jack Haley who arrives at the college with his wife (Patsy Kelly) just in time to hear the announcement that the team is to play Yale. The coach digs in to whip the team into shape, but just before the big game, the quarterback breaks his leg. All seems hopeless until they stumble across an Arkansas hillbilly, played by Stuart Erwin, who throws a football like no one they've ever seen. The only problem remaining is to figure a way to get the college to enroll the hillbilly so that he can take the place of the injured quarterback. ["http://www.jgdb.com/pigskin.htm Pigskin Parade page on The Judy Garland Database, by Jim Johnson]

Awards and Nominations

The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Erwin)

University in film

The university in the film, Texas State University, is fictional; the real-life Texas State University did not receive that name until 2003.

The logo on the football player's uniform in the poster resembles the long-time logo of Texas A&M University. However, the university in the film appears to be coeducational with no mandatory military program; until 1963, Texas A&M was for men only (though some women did attend classes) and membership in the Corps of Cadets was mandatory.

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