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19/10/1948 Comedy, Music 1h 53m
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...with the hottest men in music - beating out the rhythm with'm!

Overview

The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.

  1. Howard Hawks

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Danny Kaye

    Hobart Frisbee

  2. Virginia Mayo

    Honey Swanson

  3. Benny Goodman

    Professor Magenbruch

  4. Tommy Dorsey

    Tommy Dorsey

  5. Louis Armstrong

    Louis Armstrong

  6. Lionel Hampton

    Lionel Hampton

  7. Charlie Barnet

    Charlie Barnet

  8. Mel Powell

    Mel Powell

  9. Ford Washington Lee

    Buck

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-07-09
After two minutes you will spot the obvious similarity with "Ball of Fire" (1941). Swap Gary Cooper with Danny Kaye and Barbara Stanwyck with Virginia Mayo then add some fantastic musicianship from the likes of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Sonny Burke et al, and we have a gently amusing story of a professor (of music this time) who falls for the gangster's moll. "Honey" (Mayo) takes refuge from the pursuing FBI with a bunch of dithery professors creating an over budget dictionary of music and soon the hapless "Prof. Frisbee" (Kaye) is eating out of her hand. The gangster eleme...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$2,400,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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