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Swing Fever
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Wikipedia article
'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
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