

A Song Is Born
DirectorHoward Hawks
“...with the hottest men in music - beating out the rhythm with'm!”
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.
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Cast

Danny Kaye
Hobart Frisbee

Virginia Mayo
Honey Swanson

Benny Goodman
Professor Magenbruch

Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey

Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong

Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton

Charlie Barnet
Charlie Barnet

Mel Powell
Mel Powell
Ford Washington Lee
Buck

John 'Bubbles' Sublett
Bubbles

Page Cavanaugh
Page Cavanaugh
Al Viola
Al Viola
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