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Swing Fever

SWING FEVER

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CREDITS

1944, 80 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Irving Starr; Director, Tim Whelan; Screenplay, Nat Perrin and Warren Wilson; Cinematography, Charles Rosher; Choreography, Ernst and Maria Matray; Music Direction, Georgie Stoll.

CAST

Lowell Blackford, Kay Kyser; Ginger Gray, Marilyn Maxwell; Killer Kennedy, Nat Pendleton; Waltzy Malone, William Gargan; Nick Serocco, Curt Bois; Dan Conlon, Morris Ankrum; Rags, Maxie Rosenbloom; Wrestler, Mike Mazurki; Dr. Clyde Star, Andrew Tombes; Woody, Mantan Moreland; Kid Mandell, Lou Nova; Sledgehammer, Jack Roper; Girl, Ava Gardner.
As Themselves:
Harry James, Tommy Dorsey, Lena Horne, The Meriel Abbott Dancers, The Kay Kyser Orchestra.

SONGS

Mississippi Dream Boat by Lew Brown, Ralph Freed and Sammy Fain; I Planted a Rose; One Girl and Two Boys by Freed, Brown and Nacio Herb Brown; You're So Different by Fain; Sh! Don't Make a Sound by Sunny Skylar.

NOTES

"In Swing Fever, Kay Kyser played a somewhat retiring bandleader with an uncanny gift for hypnosis. He should have used it on [the] screenwriters. . .for the melange of music and comedy they offered. . .needed all the outside help it could get."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"Witless farrago with sprightly musical numbers."
- Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Film Guide

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