Swing Your Lady

19381938
PassedPassed
1h 17m

IMDb RATING

5.0/10

535

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Humphrey Bogart, Louise Fazenda, Allen Jenkins, Frank McHugh, Nat Pendleton, Penny Singleton, June Weaver, Frank Weaver, and Leon Weaver in Swing Your Lady (1938)

Comedy Music Romance

Promoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits against a hillbilly Amazon blacksmith, Sadie Horn. Joe falls in love with her and won't fight... Read allPromoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits against a hillbilly Amazon blacksmith, Sadie Horn. Joe falls in love with her and won't fight. At least not until Sadie's beau Noah shows up.Promoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits against a hillbilly Amazon blacksmith, Sadie Horn. Joe falls in love with her and won't fight. At least not until Sadie's beau Noah shows up.

IMDb RATING

5.0/10

535

YOUR RATING

Director
- Ray Enright
Writers
- Joseph Schrank(screen play)
- Maurice Leo(screen play)
- Kenyon Nicholson(adapted from the play by)
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Humphrey Bogart and Penny Singleton in Swing Your Lady (1938)

Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh, and Nat Pendleton in Swing Your Lady (1938)

June Weaver, Frank Weaver, and Leon Weaver in Swing Your Lady (1938)

Humphrey Bogart, Louise Fazenda, and Nat Pendleton in Swing Your Lady (1938)

Humphrey Bogart, Louise Fazenda, Nat Pendleton, Penny Singleton, Frank Weaver, and Leon Weaver in Swing Your Lady (1938)

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Trivia
Humphrey Bogart initially refused to play in this movie; he agreed when his weekly salary was raised by $200.

Quotes
Ed Hatch: Joe Skipapoulos, the ponderous pachyderm of grunt and groan, the Greek Hercules, is the next heavyweight champion of the world!

Connections
Featured in Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)

Soundtracks
Dig Me a Grave in Missouri
(1937) (uncredited)
Music by M.K. Jerome
Lyrics by Jack Scholl
Performed by The Plunkett City hillbillies, including Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver and June Weaver
Reprised a cappella by Nat Pendleton and Louise Fazenda
Played as background music often

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5/10

lesser Bogie

Ed Hatch (Humphrey Bogart) manages dim-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos. He discovers local strong hick Sadie Horn and comes up with an unusual match. Joe falls for her and refuses to fight. Ed uses all his underhanded lies to gin up another fight.

This is not necessarily for Bogie fans unless you're a completist. It's a musical comedy about rural wrestling with a strong woman. I don't find it that funny although I like most of the characters. Bogie is fine but it's not enough. I like the idea of wrestling Sadie but the movie turns away from that. I don't think it's as bad as advertised but that's not high praise.

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