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Stand Up and Cheer

by ccManager
Commentary summary:
A stereotypical happy ending of a Depression era Hollywood film

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Many Depression-era films employed happy endings to lift the spirits of audience members and suggest that the hard times would soon be over.  But perhaps no film from the period offered a more fanciful conclusion than this Fox musical featuring Warner Baxter and Shirley Temple just before she became a huge star.  Its announcement that “the Depression is over” was, of course, premature.


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Copyright 2010, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. ccManager. (2011, February 25). Stand Up and Cheer. Retrieved May 21, 2012, from Critical Commons Web site: http://criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/commentaries/stand-up-and-cheer. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons License