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1929 film by Frank Tuttle

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1929 film by Frank Tuttle

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Sweetie is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film directed by Frank Tuttle, written by George Marion Jr. and Lloyd Corrigan, and starring Nancy Carroll, Helen Kane, Jack Oakie, William Austin, Stuart Erwin, and Wallace MacDonald. It was released on November 2, 1929, by Paramount Pictures. Plot School spirit is high at Pelham University, which finally has a football team that can beat the rival school, Oglethorpe. What almost nobody knows is that Biff Bentley, the team captain, is planning to quit school to marry his chorus-girl fiancee, Barbara Pell. When, at the last minute, he's talked into staying for the good of the team, Barbara is furious that he's putting football ahead of his love for her. It has left her in an uncomfortable position as well: She had quit a good job in order to marry him and will not be able to get that job back. Tap-Tap Thompson, her fellow Broadway performer, manages to find her a new job in a chorus, but she is so upset over her relationship with Biff that she can’t learn the footwork, putting her job in jeopardy. It is at this moment that Prof. Willow enters her life, revealing that Barbara Pell is only her stage name. Her real name is Barbara Pelham, and she has just inherited Pelham University. She immediately moves on campus to take command—and take revenge on the football team.

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Notable quotes

“The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things"—as Swift … most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."”
— Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy (1869).
“The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.”
— Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy (1869).
“Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation (1841).
“If it is too sweet for him, let him eat salt. If it is not too sweet for him, let him eat .”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection III at , .
“To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.”
— Charles Lamb, On Ears.
“Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.”
— Jonathan Swift, Battle of the Books, fable on the merits of the bee (the ancients) and the spider (the moderns).

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Sweetie: apple cultivar · 1989 film by Jane Campion · Computer animated child used as an avatar to lure sexual pre

Notable quotes

“The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things"—as Swift … most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."”
— Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy (1869).
“The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.”
— Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy (1869).
“Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation (1841).
“If it is too sweet for him, let him eat salt. If it is not too sweet for him, let him eat .”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection III at , .
“To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.”
— Charles Lamb, On Ears.
“Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.”
— Jonathan Swift, Battle of the Books, fable on the merits of the bee (the ancients) and the spider (the moderns).

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Sweetie is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film directed by Frank Tuttle, written by George Marion Jr. and Lloyd Corrigan, and starring Nancy Carroll, Helen Kane, Jack Oakie, William Austin, Stuart Erwin, and Wallace MacDonald. It was released on November 2, 1929, by Paramount Pictures. Plot School spirit is high at Pelham University, which finally has a football team that can beat the rival school, Oglethorpe. What almost nobody knows is that Biff Bentley, the team captain, is planning to quit school to marry his chorus-girl fiancee, Barbara Pell. When, at the last minute, he's talked into staying for the good of the team, Barbara is furious that he's putting football ahead of his love for her. It has left her in an uncomfortable position as well: She had quit a good job in order to marry him and will not be able to get that job back. Tap-Tap Thompson, her fellow Broadway performer, manages to find her a new job in a chorus, but she is so upset over her relationship with Biff that she can’t learn the footwork, putting her job in jeopardy. It is at this moment that Prof. Willow enters her life, revealing that Barbara Pell is only her stage name. Her real name is Barbara Pelham, and she has just inherited Pelham University. She immediately moves on campus to take command—and take revenge on the football team.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Sweetie is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film directed by Frank Tuttle, written by George Marion Jr. and Lloyd Corrigan, and starring Nancy Carroll, Helen Kane, Jack Oakie, William Austin, Stuart Erwin, and Wallace MacDonald. It was released on November 2, 1929, by Paramount Pictures.

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