rko file for bankruptcy in the mid 1930 and be on the verge of finally get back on their foot financially by 1940. i suspect that someone from their cost accounting group wander into the studio commissary in 1939 and find it full of under contract actor and production staff goof off and eat studio food . they round up this group and stuff the whole bunch onto an unused sound stage ( with a leftover southwestern set ) and get them sing and dance to song from a rogers and hart broadway show ( which they have an option on but have deem unworthy of feature film treatment ) . the result be release a too many girl ( 1940 ) and financially practical because with almost everything already pay for ( insert fix cost here ) and the additional expense of actually produce something boil down to a little electricity and some black and white film stock . no good reason to track this one down and it pretty witless a a comedy with the miscasting making for funny moment than anything else in the film . everyone except ann miller be too old to be play college student and they try to pass hal le roy ( one of hollywood most effeminate actor ) off a a college football all american . i generally like this kind of stuff and will sit through anything to watch ann miller while so if it totally turn me off it be unlikely to appeal to most viewer . mostly it be notable for what happen off camera a lucy and desi make their first connection . some of the musical number by rodgers and hart be bearable while hero in the fall and pottawatomie . trudy erwin dub lucy only song . francis langford do most of the other number . mildly wild heiress connie casey ( lucille ball ) return from finish school in europe with an unusual request to attend her father alma mater in new mexico pottawatomie college . you mean a lot to me and pottawatomie . you hit the spot of me and pottawatomie . i love pottawatomie with all my anatomy . so every tot of me and that be beget of me and will go to pot and pot and pottawatomie . lucy be almost 30 at the time and even with extreme soft focus and minimal close ups can not remotely pas for 18. her father suspect that she have a boyfriend at the school and hire four ivy league football star to monitor the behavior of the new freshman . the four eventually end up play for the school hapless football team and which in a matter of a few day have change it schedule to include game with big time program like nebraska and columbia and tennessee . there be a grand celebration at which the student body sing the follow less than immortal lyric represent youre a ham well scram notre dame and we will make williams wail and army you too navy and boo hoo to purdue and georgia tech day you will dread youre a wreck and look at brown turn blue and we will make a bumpia out of columbia and in a quota minnesota get to go and you will see u of d and we will have all the alphabet to shout out . ( reviewer note represent the u of d be the university of detroit which be once a football power ) . the scale of this thing be ultimately it undoing a broadway ensemble of 15 be replace with a cast of hundred ( remember all those people sit in the rko commissary drawing paycheck for do nothing ) . on risqué broadway the girl who be still virgin wear beany while in the film they wear them to signify that they have never be kiss ( it be amuse to watch these age and jade rko starlet try to pass for ultra chaste teen ) . there be a corny and unconvincing romance between lucy and richard carlson while whose brand of wooden act would eventually work to his advantage in 1950 science fiction film like it come from out space . then again and what do i know . i be only a child .