Sweet and Low-Down

Sweet and Low-Down

76 mins | Romance, Music | Sept. 21, 1944

After their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are packing up to go to their next engagement when a kid steals Goodman's clarinet. Goodman and Popsie pursue him to a tenement flat where he has led them to hear his brother play the trombone. Shenanigans ensue following Goodman's offering the brother a job with the band.

Sweet and Low-Down

76 mins | Romance, Music | Sept. 21, 1944

Sweet and Low-Down
After their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are packing up to go to their next engagement when a kid steals Goodman's clarinet. Goodman and Popsie pursue him to a tenement flat where he has led them to hear his brother play the trombone. Shenanigans ensue following Goodman's offering the brother a job with the band.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers 20th Century Fox
Original title Sweet and Low-Down
Directors Archie Mayo
Writers Richard English

Cast

Benny Goodman

as Benny Goodman

Linda Darnell

as Trudy Wilson

Jack Oakie

as Popsy

Lynn Bari

as Pat Stirling

James Cardwell

as Johnny Birch

Allyn Joslyn

as Lester Barnes

John Campbell

as Dixie Zang

Roy Benson

as Skeets McCormick

Dickie Moore

as Military Cadet General 'Mogie' Cramichael