Swing It

Swing It

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Swing It

1936

0h 16m

4.2(5 votes)

Music

Overview

Louis Prima, between song numbers, tells how he happened to get a job in a Hollywood cafe playing music while a couple, unrelated to anything else, play a slot machine in the background. This short was reissued in 1944 and again in 1952. Lucille Ball has a bit part. Song numbers include; "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans", "Up a Lazy River", "Dinah","Basin Street Blues" and "Johnny Get Your Gun."

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RKO Radio Pictures

Cast & Crew

3 members

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Louis Prima

Louis Prima - Band Leader

Louis Prima

Acting

Lucille Ball

Mary (uncredited)

Lucille Ball

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Pee Wee Russell

Himself

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