Johnny Downs (Scoop), Gale Storm (Joan), Robert Lowery (Buzz), Candy Candido (Harold), Ge-Ge Pearson (Babs), Doug Leavitt (Uncle Willie), Herbert Heyes (Hartman), Marie Blake (Susie), Johnny Duncan (freshman), Claudia Drake (Cynthia), and Tom Kennedy.Director: ARTHUR DREIFUSS. Screenplay: Charles R. Marion. Additional dialogue: Albert Beich, Frank Tarloff. Original story: Ewart Adamson, Jack White. Photography: Mack Stengler. Film editor: Richard Currier. Art director: David Milton. Music director: Edward J. Kay. Songs: "Walking the Chalk Line" by Jules Lohman, Louis Herscher; "Swing Your Way Through College" by Andy Iona Long, Louis Herscher; "It's Great To Be a College Girl" and "College Sweetheart", both by Louis Herscher. Additional music: Edward Cherkose. Production manager: Dick L'Estrange. Sound recording: Tom Lambert. Producer: Lindsley Parsons.Copyright 8 October 1943 by Monogram Pictures Corp. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 19 November 1943. Australian release through British Empire Films: 20 April 1944. 5,624 feet. 62 minutes.SYNOPSIS: She's Singing Her Way Through College.COMMENT: This Monogram musical has Gale Storm, but little else to recommend it. That else includes a few jokes, buried in a tot of talk ("Since 1 was knee-high to a grasshopper"; "Say, you sing a swell song!"); plus a female voice impersonator; plus of course some mildly melodic songs. Typically dull direction from Arthur Dreifuss is not calculated to improve the picture's overall appeal. As I say, that appeal rests almost entirely on Gale Storm. You either like her or you regard her with indifference. Fortunately for me (and this review), I really like her!Nonetheless, you would think FIVE writers could come up with something more amusing, exciting and colorful than this ho-hum pastiche!

I caught "Campus Rhythm" on Netflix, on a whim. I'd like my 63 minutes back, please. First, the plot is as old and tired as vaudeville; "trite" doesn't begin to cover it. Second, the actors all appear to be in their 30s or older, despite them supposedly being college students. The men are, almost invariably, creepy leches, and the audience is somehow supposed to find them charming. Everything is shot on sound stages or back-lots, which sucks any energy or life out of the film. Finally, the music, which is leaned-on heavily, is just dismal with some of the most cringe-worthy lyrics I've ever heard. There were a variety of composers involved but none of them were worthy of polishing Cole Porter's shoes. All that's left of the film is some okay visuals and a bad aftertaste.

I always had a fondness for Gale Storm since I enjoyed her in the "My Little Margie" TV series in the early 1950's. I had never seen her movies till I just saw a few on TCM cable TV. Pretty, perky Gale is the only really good thing in this movie.This movie is a great example of "suspension of disbelief." Gale's character is the top singer on U.S. radio, who flees radio and her contract to attend college under an alias (she wants to enjoy the life of an average college girl). Even though she is a RADIO star, it seems unbelievable that no one on campus would recognize/suspect who she is especially after it is announced that she is hiding in some unknown college under an alias!I wish to draw attention to one clever scene in this routine movie: how she foils her uncle's attempt to expose her and bring her back to radio. Humorous Uncle Willie (played to good effect by Douglas Leavitt ) follows a lead that she is at a certain college. He sneaks into the girl's gym to find her, but accidentally tears his pant-leg. Gale then comes across him and has him go into the empty girl's dressing room. She says she will return with a needle and thread to sew the pants, which he is to toss out the door when she returns. However, she tells on him to the gym instructor. He tosses out the pants and is about to be booked by the cops, but Gale pleads for him by making a deal with the cops that if he promises to leave town and never return, he won't be charged as a pervert to spare his family scandal.

It's a Monogram musical with 6 songs in 63 minutes. I am almost at a loss at what else to tell you. Here I go.....teen singer Gale Storm has had enough of being 'The Crunchy Wunchy Thrush' which in those days meant 'radio show sponsor's singer' as opposed to today which means 'see your chemist for the right ointment'. Gale skips on her renewal and hotfoots it to minor rural college under an assumed name: Sally something. Upon arrival she is corralled into some fraternity house by 'Buzz" played like Jungle Jim on holiday by look-alike Robert Lowery (BATMAN from the serial of 1943)..... and accosted by "Scoop" the campus newspaper dude. The only highlight are the songs by delightful vocal funnyman Johnny Candy Candido who is so hilarious and effervescent... as he is in every film he appeared in the 30s/40s..eg: ROBERTA and SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT. Gale Storm is as usual her 'older pert Shirley Temple' teen self... but the film is basically dull, simple and forgettable. Even the other three songs make no sense and are un memorable.. as opposed to forgettable. Some contrived farce scenes at the radio station with exasperated squabbling replacing wit are slightly amusing only for their energy and obvious placement in the trailer. I wish I could say more positive things but CAMPUS RHYTHM but I would be out of sync with myself.