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Reviews 41% Audience Score 250+ Ratings When the Yale football team seeks a fair-to-middling opponent for a charity game, a filing mishap results in tiny Texas State University receiving an...
- (13)
- Emanuel Levy
- Musical, Comedy
- David Butler
PIGSKIN PARADE (20th Century-Fox, 1936), directed by David Butler, the studio's answer to the wide range of college musicals made popular in the 1930s, contains its own assortment of comedy, songs and a football game finale (hense the title) all told in 93 minutes.
Pigskin Parade is a 1936 American 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 game.
Pigskin Parade: Directed by David Butler. With Stuart Erwin, Patsy Kelly, Jack Haley, The Yacht Club Boys. Married coaches Slug and Bessie find hillbilly football tosser Amos and the team gets invited to the Yale Bowl.
- (792)
- Comedy, Musical, Sport
- David Butler
- 1936-10-23
This clunky musical (a formulaic combo of football feature and campus comedy) is best known today for featuring two actresses who would become major stars in the 1940s: Judy Garland (then 13) and...
Pigskin Parade was released on October 23, 1936, and became one of Fox’s biggest hits of the year. Popular with both audiences and critics, it helped further the careers of most of its cast.
A small Texas college gets chosen by mistake to play against Yale University in a charity football exhibition, and they hire a husband-and-wife pair of coaches from New York (Flushing, to be exact) – Haley and Kelly – to bring the team up to snuff for the big game.
