After her brief stint as an RKO contract player, Grable signed with Paramount Pictures. Paramount lent her to 20th Century-Fox to co-star in the adolescent comedy "Pigskin Parade" (1936), which first exposed Grable to the public. Despite the studio's effort to introduce Grable to the mainstream movie audience, her performance was overlooked by audiences and critics in favor of a newcomer, Judy Garland. When Grable returned to Paramount, she began a new phase in her career; the studio began casting her in a series of college-aimed movies, the majority of the time having her portray a naive student. These films included the moderately popular "This Way Please" (1937) and "College Swing" (1938). Though Grable played the leading roles in these films, they led to her being typecast as an innocent and not-so-bright college student.