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A Song Is Born

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

1948 · NR · 1h 53m

Directed by Howard Hawks

6.5

TMDB audience score
48 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Danny Kaye
    Hobart Frisbee

  • Virginia Mayo
    Honey Swanson

  • Benny Goodman
    Professor Magenbruch

  • Tommy Dorsey
    Tommy Dorsey

  • Louis Armstrong
    Louis Armstrong

  • Lionel Hampton
    Lionel Hampton

  • Charlie Barnet
    Charlie Barnet

  • Mel Powell
    Mel Powell

  • Ford Washington Lee
    Buck

  • John 'Bubbles' Sublett
    Bubbles

  • Page Cavanaugh
    Page Cavanaugh

  • Al Viola
    Al Viola

  • Lloyd Pratt
    Lloyd Pratt

  • Orlandus Wilson
    Orlandus Wilson

  • Henry Owens
    Henry Owens

  • Willie Johnson
    Willie Johnson

  • Clyde Riddick
    Clyde Riddick

  • Russo do Pandeiro
    Russo