Swing Fever
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Swing Fever | |
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Directed by | Tim Whelan |
Written by | Story: Matt Brooks Joseph Hoffman Screenplay: Nat Perrin |
Produced by | Irving Starr |
Starring | Kay Kyser |
Cinematography | Charles Rosher |
Edited by | Ferris Webster |
Music by | George Stoll (uncredited) |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
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Running time | 79 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Swing Fever is a 1943 American musical comedy film directed by Tim Whelan. Kay Kyser plays an ambitious music composer, also gifted with a hypnotic "evil eye", who gets mixed up with promoting a boxer. The film also features Marilyn Maxwell, William Gargan, Nat Pendleton and Lena Horne. Amid the credited music and boxing-world cameos many other familiar faces can be glimpsed: Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Mike Mazurki, Mantan Moreland, and a young Ava Gardner.
Cast[]
- Kay Kyser as Lowell Blackford
- Marilyn Maxwell as Ginger Gray
- William Gargan as "Waltzy" Malone
- Nat Pendleton as "Killer" Kennedy
- Lena Horne as herself
- Curt Bois as Nick Sirocco
- Morris Ankrum as Dan Conlon
- Andrew Tombes as Dr. Clyde L. Star
- Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom as Rags
- Clyde Fillmore as Mr. Nagen
- Pamela Blake as Lois, Nagen's secretary
- Lou Nova as Kid Mandell
- Jack Roper as Sledgehammer Carson
- Harry Babbitt as himself
- Sully Mason as himself
- Ish Kabibble as himself
- Tommy Dorsey as himself
- Harry James as himself
- Jean Veloz nee Phelps aka Jean Davi as swing dancer, One Girl and Two Boys number
- Lennie Smith as swing dancer, One Girl and Two Boys number
- Don Gallagher as swing dancer, One Girl and Two Boys number
References[]
External links[]
- Swing Fever at IMDb
- Swing Fever at the TCM Movie Database
- Swing Fever at the American Film Institute Catalog
Categories:
- 1943 films
- English-language films
- American films
- Films directed by Tim Whelan
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
- 1943 musical comedy films
- American musical comedy films
- American black-and-white films
- Musical comedy film stubs