| 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. Brunette singer Penny Singleton who was also cast 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.
Swing Your Lady features the first film performance by the Weaver Brothers and Elviry, a comedy troupe better known as The Arkansas Travelers[1] during their many years in vaudeville and on the Grand Ole Opry radio show.[2] 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.[3][2]
- ^ Not to be confused with Bob Burns' Arkansas Traveler
- ^ a b "Down in "Arkansaw"". www.tcm.com. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
- ^ Austin, Wade (1981). "The Real Beverly Hillbillies". The South and Film. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 86–87. ISBN 0-87805-148-1. Retrieved 3 January 2021.