Swing Fever
1943 film by Tim Whelan
- November 1, 1943 (1943-11-01) (US)
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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.
Plot
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 AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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Films directed by Tim Whelan
- Adam's Apple (1928)
- When Knights Were Bold (1929)
- It's a Boy (1933)
- Aunt Sally (1934)
- The Camels are Coming (1934)
- The Murder Man (1935)
- The Perfect Gentleman (1935)
- Two's Company (1936)
- The Mill on the Floss (1937)
- Farewell Again (1937)
- Action for Slander (1937)
- Smash and Grab (1937)
- The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
- St. Martin's Lane (1938)
- Q Planes (1939)
- Ten Days in Paris (1940)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
- A Date with Destiny (1941)
- International Lady (1941)
- Twin Beds (1942)
- Nightmare (1942)
- Seven Days' Leave (1942)
- Swing Fever (1943)
- Higher and Higher (1943)
- Step Lively (1944)
- Badman's Territory (1946)
- This Was a Woman (1948)
- Rage at Dawn (1955)
- Texas Lady (1955)
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