A Song Is Born

A Song Is Born

A Song Is Born

Genres
Comedy Music

Release Date: Oct 19, 1948

Runtime: 113 minutes

Rating: 6.5/10

Status: Released

Production Companies
  • Samuel Goldwyn Productions

Overview

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.

"...with the hottest men in music - beating out the rhythm with'm!"

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Cast

Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong ,

Lionel Hampton, Charlie Barnet, Mel Powell, Ford Washington Lee, John 'Bubbles' Sublett, Page Cavanaugh, Al Viola, Lloyd Pratt, Orlandus Wilson, Henry Owens, Willie Johnson, Clyde Riddick, Russo do Pandeiro, Hugh Herbert, Steve Cochran, J. Edward Bromberg, Felix Bressart, Ludwig Stössel, O.Z. Whitehead, Esther Dale, Mary Field, Howland Chamberlain, Paul Langton, Sidney Blackmer, Ben Welden, Ben Chasen, Peter Virgo, Harry Babasin, Louie Bellson, Alton Hendrickson, Laurindo Almeida, Sue George, Milicent Patrick

Crew

Howard Hawks, Samuel Goldwyn, Gregg Toland, Daniel Mandell, Perry Ferguson ,

George Jenkins, Julia Heron, Irene Sharaff, Marie Clark, Robert Stephanoff, Hugo Friedhofer, Emil Newman, Don Raye, Gene de Paul, Don Raye, Sonny Burke, Emil Newman, Hugo Friedhofer, John P. Fulton, Billy Wilder, Thomas Monroe, Fred Lau, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Harry Tugend