Swing It

Swing It

16 mins | Music | June 30, 1936

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."

Swing It

16 mins | Music | June 30, 1936

Swing It
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."
Producers RKO Radio Pictures
Original title Swing It
Directors Leslie Goodwins
Writers Charles E. Roberts

Cast

Louis Prima

as Louis Prima - Band Leader

Lucille Ball

as Mary (uncredited)

Pee Wee Russell

as Himself