Swing Out the Blues

Swing Out the Blues
Poster for the film
Directed byMalcolm St. Clair
Screenplay byDorcas Cochran
Story byDoris Malloy
Produced bySam White
StarringBob Haymes
Lynn Merrick
Janis Carter
CinematographyArthur Martinelli
Edited byJerome Thoms
Music byM. W. Stoloff
Production
company
Release date
  • January 20, 1944 (1944-01-20) (US)[1]
Running time
73 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Swing Out the Blues is a 1944 American romantic comedy film directed by Malcolm St. Clair and starring Bob Haymes, Lynn Merrick, and Janis Carter. It was released on May 22, 1938.[2]

Plot

Rich Cleveland and the Vagabonds are a swing band in financial difficulties. Rich, the lead singer, (Bob Haymes) marries wealthy socialite Lynn Merrick (Penelope Carstairs). The threat that Rich and Lynn will abandon the band forms the conflict in the comic narrative.[3]

Cast

Production

Director St. Clair, a veteran of the silent film era, included a lengthy “film-within-a-film” that parodies the early Mack Sennett comedies and appears “in the guise of a home movie.”[4]

Notes

  1. ^ "Swing Out the Blues". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 20, 2018. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  2. ^ Dwyer, 1996 p. 237-238: Filmography
  3. ^ Dwyer, 1996 p. 237-238: Filmography, film synopsis.
  4. ^ Dwyer, 1996 p. 151, p. 238: Filmography, plot summary: “There is a funny lengthy silent sequence in the guise of a home movie.”

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