Swing It Professor (1937)
A music professor is fired from his job for not knowing enough about modern "swing" music. He goes to Chicago to learn more about the subject in hopes of getting his job back, but he winds up getting mixed up with gangsters.
- Date of release
- 1937-03-13
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 2m
- Genres
- Music, Crime
- Director
- Marshall Neilan
Casting
- Pinky Tomlin — Professor Artemis J. Roberts
- Paula Stone — Teddy Ross
- Milburn Stone — Lou Morgan
- Mary Kornman — Joan Dennis
- Bill Elliott — Randall
- Pat Gleason — Toby Brickhead
- Ralph Peters — Beaver
- George Cleveland — Dean Wiley
- Harry Depp — Trustee
- Harry Semels — Angelo
- I. Stanford Jolley — Piano playing hobo
Interesting facts
Swing It, Professor is an independently produced 1937 musical comedy directed by Marshall Neilan and starring Pinky Tomlin, Paula Stone and Milburn Stone. The musical numbers were written by Connie Lee, Al Heath and Buddy LeRoux, and was produced by Conn Productions, Inc. The film capitalised on the swing dance craze.
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