Swing!

Swing! (1938)

Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.

Date of release
1938-04-29
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 9m
Genres
Drama
Director
Oscar Micheaux

Casting

Interesting facts

Swing! is a 1938 American race film directed, produced and written by Oscar Micheaux.

Production

Green performs the Yiddish tune Bei Mir Bistu Shein for her star-making musical sequence.

Actress Dorothy Van Engle, who had a supporting role as an assistant producer, is credited for inventing a key scene in Swing!, where her character and Mandy are sewing together. Van Engle, who was also a seamstress, created her own clothing for the film.

Elvera Sanchez Davis, the mother of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., had a small role in Swing! as a tap dancer.

Swing!, which is a public domain title, has been frequently shown in film festivals and retrospective series celebrating the creative output of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneering African-American filmmaker, and it has also been broadcast on U.S. television in programming devoted to the history of African-American cinema.

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