Swing! (1938)

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69 min - Musical | Drama

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

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Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Cora Green	...	Amanda 'Mandy' Jenkins
	Larry Seymour	...	Cornell Jenkins
	Hazel Diaz	...	Eloise Jackson / Cora Smith
	Alec Lovejoy	...	Lem Jackson / Big Jones
	Amanda Randolph	...	Liza Freeman (as Mandy Randolph)
	Trixie Smith	...	Lucy
	Carman Newsome	...	Ted Gregory
	Nat Reed	...	Ted, Gregory's Assistant
	Sammy Gardiner	...	Sammy, Gregory's Assistant
	Dorothy Van Engle	...	Lena Powell
	Doli Armena	...	Miss Watkins, a Trumpet Player
	Columbus Jackson	...	A Hustler
	George R. Taylor	...	Mr. Becker, Theatrical Backer
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Leon Gross
	Consuelo Harris

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Storyline

When Mandy Jenkins catches her husband Cornell out on a date with Eloise Jackson in a small cabaret in Birmingham, Alabama, she and Jackson have a fight. Months later, Eloise is living in Harlem and about to star in a musical, produced and directed by Ted Gregory, who hopes to be the first black producer to put on a show on Broadway. Mandy, meanwhile, has also moved to Harlem, and is hired by Gregory as wardrobe mistress at the suggestion of his secretary, Lena, with whom Gregory has fallen in love. But Gregory has problems getting backing for the show, and is unhappy that Eloise often comes drunk and late to the rehearsals. And things look hopeless when Eloise breaks her leg falling down a stairway while in a drunken stupor. Written by Arthur Hausner <genart@volcano.net>

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