Short film
Swing It
1936 · 16 min
A breezy, featherweight musical short that breezes by on song numbers and easy charm.
- Directed by
- Leslie Goodwins
- Genres
- Music
- Starring
- Louis Prima, Lucille Ball, Pee Wee Russell
- Overview
- Louis Prima, between song numbers, tells how he happened to get a job in a Hollywood cafe playing music while a couple, unrelated to anything else, play a slot machine in the background. This short was reissued in 1944 and again in 1952. Lucille Ball has a bit part. Song numbers include; "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans", "Up a Lazy River", "Dinah","Basin Street Blues" and "Johnny Get Your Gun."
- How it feels
- Brisk and fine in the background.
- About
- Music
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Leslie Goodwins
- Genres
- Music
- Starring
- Louis Prima, Lucille Ball, Pee Wee Russell
