Main Cast: Benny Goodman Orchestra, Linda Darnell, Lynn Bari, Jack Oakie, James B. Cardwell
Release Year: 1944
Country: US
Run Time: 76 minutes
Plot
In this musical, a youthful trombonist is thrilled when he is allowed to play with Benny Goodman's Orchestra. Afterward he becomes insufferably egotistical and tries to start his own swing band. It's his girl friend's idea, and unfortunately he fails. He then returns to his old mill job. Fortunately, he is given another chance to play with Benny and the boys. Musical numbers include: "I'm Making Believe," (Mack Gordon, James V. Monaco), as well as "Chug-Chug-Choo-Choo-Chug," "Hey Bub, Let's Have a Ball," "Ten Days with a Baby" (Gordon, Monaco), "I Found a New Baby" (Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams), "Jersey Bounce" (Robert B. Wright, Bobby Plater, Tiny Bradshaw, Edward Johnson), "Let's Dance" (Fanny Baldridge, Gregory Stone, Joseph Bonine), "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" (Gene Lockhart, Ernest Seitz), "Mozart's Clarinet Quintet" (performed by Goodman and strings), "No Love, No Nothing" (Leo Robin, Harry Warren), "Rachel's Dream" (Benny Goodman), and "I Yi Yi Yi Yi, I Like You Very Much" (Gordon, Warren) ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Allyn Joslyn - Lester Barnes; John Campbell - Dixie Zang; Roy Benson - Skeets McCormick; Dickie Moore - General Carmichael; Buddy Swan - Tony Birch; Beverly Hudson - Helen Birch; Dorothy Vaughan - Mrs. Birch; George Lessey - Norman Wilson; Ray Mayer - Coroner; Billy Dawson - Major Ellis; Harry McKim - Col. Wiseman; Robert Emmett Keane - Tivoli Owner; Hope Landin - Matron; Cara Williams - Blonde; Roger Clark - Friend; Paul Marco; The Pied Pipers - Themselves; Terry Moore - Snub-Nosed Girl
Credit
Maurice Ransford - Art Director, Lyle Wheeler - Art Director, Archie Mayo - Director, Dorothy Spencer - Editor, James V. Monaco - Composer (Music Score), Charles Henderson - Musical Direction/Supervision, Emil Newman - Musical Direction/Supervision, Lucien Ballard - Cinematographer, William Le Baron - Producer, Fred Sersen - Special Effects, Richard English - Screenwriter, Edward Haldeman - Short Story Author
