Movie

Swing It (1936)

• NR
• June 30, 1936
• 16m

• Music

Overview

Louis Prima, between song numbers, tells how he happened to get a job in a Hollywood cafe playing music while a couple, unrelated to anything else, play a slot machine in the background. This short was reissued in 1944 and again in 1952. Lucille Ball has a bit part. Song numbers include; "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans", "Up a Lazy River", "Dinah","Basin Street Blues" and "Johnny Get Your Gun."

Director

Leslie Goodwins

Starring

Louis Prima, Lucille Ball, Pee Wee Russell