Sweetheart of the Campus (1941) DVD-R

Starring Ruby Keeler, Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Hilliard, Gordon Oliver, Don Beddoe
Directed by Edward Dmytryk

Print: black/white
Runtime: 70 min.
Genre: musical
Print Quality: B

Ruby Keeler made her final screen starring appearance in the Columbia musical
Sweetheart of the Campus. Keeler plays Betty Blake, lead vocalist for Ozzie Nelson's
orchestra. While performing a one-night stand at a college campus, Betty vows to prevent a
hostile takeover of the establishment by puritanical trustee Minnie Sparr (Kathleen Howard).
To this end, Betty, Ozzie and his entire band enroll as college students. The best musical
number finds star Keeler tap-dancing to a boogie-woogie rhythm, while cinematographer
Franz Planer indulges in all manner of innovative camera angles and process trickery. Also
in the cast as co-ed cutie Harriet Hale is Harriet Hilliard, real-life wife of costar Ozzie Nelson.