Swing Fever
{{short description|1943 film by Tim Whelan}}
{{for|the Rod Stewart and Jools Holland album|Swing Fever (album)}}
{{No footnotes|date=July 2013}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Swing Fever
| image = Swing Fever poster.jpg
| caption = theatrical poster
| director = Tim Whelan
| producer = Irving Starr
| writer = Story:
Matt Brooks
Joseph Hoffman
Screenplay:
Nat Perrin
Warren Wilson
| starring = Kay Kyser
| music = George Stoll (uncredited)
| cinematography = Charles Rosher
| editing = Ferris Webster
| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
| released = {{Film date|1943|11|1|US}}
| runtime = 79 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
}}
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.
Plot
{{no plot|date=January 2024}}
Cast
{{castlist|
- 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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External links
- {{IMDb title|0037335}}
- {{TCMDb title|440}}
- {{AFI film|700}}
{{Tim Whelan}}
Category:Films directed by Tim Whelan
Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Category:1943 musical comedy films
Category:American musical comedy films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:1940s English-language films
Category:Films scored by Georgie Stoll
Category:English-language musical comedy films
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