| Swing Your Lady | |
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| Directed by | Ray Enright |
| Screenplay by | Joseph Schrank Maurice Leo |
| Based on | Swing Your Lady 1936 play by Kenyon Nicholson Charles Robinson |
| Produced by | Samuel Bischoff |
| Starring | Humphrey Bogart Frank McHugh Louise Fazenda Nat Pendleton Penny Singleton Allen Jenkins Ronald Reagan |
| Cinematography | Arthur Edeson |
| Edited by | Jack Killifer |
| Music by | Adolph Deutsch |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Swing Your Lady is a 1938 American country musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright, starring Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh, and Louise Fazenda. Ronald Reagan is also in the cast in one of his early roles. Daniel Boone Savage, a professional wrestler, made his film debut in this feature. Nat Pendleton was a former Olympic and professional wrestler.[1] In 1938, Brunette singer Penny Singleton was about to turn blonde and embark on a long, hugely successful career playing the iconic comic strip character Blondie in a series of 28 films and a popular radio show.
Bogart was apparently becoming very disenchanted with the film roles that Warner Bros. was offering him at this stage of his career; the following year he appeared in his only horror/sci-fi film, The Return of Doctor X, and these were two roles he never liked talking about when he became a major film star several years later; he considered his performance in Swing Your Lady the worst of his career.[2]
Swing Your Lady features the first film performance by the Weaver Brothers and Elviry, a comedy troupe better known as The Arkansas Travelers[3] during their many years in vaudeville and on the Grand Ole Opry radio show.[4] Following this performance, the trio was picked up by Republic Pictures for Down in Arkansas, the first in what was to be a series of 11 comedy films for the studio.[5][4]
Swing Your Lady is listed in the 1978 book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
