Start Cheering is a 1938 American musical film directed by Albert S. Rogell and starring Jimmy Durante, Charles Starrett, Joan Perry, and Walter Connolly.

Film star Ted Crosley is fed up with Hollywood and quits the movies to enroll in college under an assumed name.

Charles Starrett was established as Columbia's cowboy star, and petitioned his employers to cast him in modern-day stories.

The ingenue in Start Cheering, Joan Perry, made such an impression on Columbia president Harry Cohn that he proposed marriage to her.

Specialty performer Chaz Chase does his vaudeville act periodically during the film: he eats everything on his person: pages from books, flowers, buttons, etc.