A Song Is Born
...with the hottest men in music - beating out the rhythm with'm!
6.5 / 10
113 minutes
1948-10-19
English
US
Actors :
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Barnet, Mel Powell, Ford Washington Lee, John 'Bubbles' Sublett, Page Cavanaugh, Al Viola, Lloyd Pratt, Orlandus Wilson, Henry Owens
Description
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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CinemaSerf
7/9/2022, 6:39:19 AM
After two minutes you will spot the obvious similarity with "Ball of Fire" (1941). Swap Gary Cooper with Danny Kaye and Barbara Stanwyck with Virginia Mayo then add some fantastic musicianship from the likes of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Sonny Burke et al, and we have a gently amusing story of a professor (of music this time) who falls for the gangster's moll. "Honey" (Mayo) tak...