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Director:
Writers:
Valentine Davies (story)
Philip Yordan (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
22 May 1942 (USA) more
Tagline:
Presenting THE ALL-AMERICAN DANCE BAND...Selected from among Readers in the SATURDAY EVENING POST POLL (original poster)
Plot:
Covering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated" music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie)from prior to WWI through prohibition... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Adolphe Menjou ... George Latimer
Jackie Cooper ... Johnny Schumacher
Bonita Granville ... Kit Latimer
George Bancroft ... Steve Porter
Robert Benchley ... Doakes (scenes deleted)
Walter Catlett ... Spelvin (scenes deleted)
Ted North ... Paul Porter
Todd Duncan ... Rex Tearbone
Connee Boswell ... Herself, Connee Boswell
Frank Jenks ... Smiley Jackson
Jessica Grayson ... Ella Tearbone (as Jessie Grayson)
Mona Barrie ... Lillian
Lindy Wade ... Paul Porter - as a Child
Peggy McIntyre ... Kit Latimer - as a Child
Charlie Barnet ... Himself, Charlie Barnet
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:88 min | USA:76 min (re-release)
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Finland:S | Sweden:15

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11 out of 12 people found the following comment useful.
A delightful spectacle of various jazz's classic gems, 3 February 2005
6/10
Author: EvelynGrasielaPetersen from Brazil

The merits of this pictures lay rather in the execution of the great jazz scores than the plot itself - lacking and predictable, in a latest account. Starting by a little chronicle about the jazz development, from its African origins up 'till its further evolving into the New Orleans and Chicago style, the story approaches the career's flourish of a young trumpeter Cooper, who falls for a "stride" piano player during the Great War - portraying also the noble stratum's refractory and prejudicial attitudes against jazz valued as a 'vulgar' genre. A movie that certainly will apply the classic jazz lovers, with locations in Basin street and, at the end, a very special featuring of the most hot jazz players of the early 40's as Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet, Gene Krupa, Harry James, Jack Jenny, Joe Venuti, and Alvino Rey, not forgetting the special appearance of Connie Boswell singing "under a falling star". As against another movies as "Alfie", "anatomy of murder" or "Ball of fire" which conciliate good scripts with good music (Sonnie Rollins, Duke Ellington and Roy Eldridge respectively), Syncopation, even unprovided of a consistent story, still is a delicious option in order to evoke one of the most fruitful music period in this century.

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