A Song Is Born

Release date: 10/19/1948

Budget: $2,400,000

Genres:

Comedy, Music

Countries:

United States of America

Rating:

6.5

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

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.

Actors

Danny Kaye

Hobart Frisbee

Virginia Mayo

Honey Swanson

Benny Goodman

Professor Magenbruch

Tommy Dorsey

Louis Armstrong

Lionel Hampton

Charlie Barnet

Mel Powell

John 'Bubbles' Sublett

Bubbles

Page Cavanaugh

Orlandus Wilson

Hugh Herbert

Professor Twingle

Steve Cochran

Tony Crow

J. Edward Bromberg

Dr. Elfini

Felix Bressart

Professor Gerkikoff

Ludwig Stössel

Professor Träumer

O. Z. Whitehead

Professor Oddly

Esther Dale

Miss Bragg

Mary Field

Miss Totten

Howland Chamberlain

Mr. Setter

Paul Langton

Joe

Sidney Blackmer

Adams

Ben Welden

Monte

Peter Virgo

Louis

Louie Bellson

Drums

Laurindo Almeida

Laurindo Almeida (uncredited)

Sue George

Cigarette Girl (uncredited)

Milicent Patrick

Woman at Dorsey Club (uncredited)

A Song Is Born

Actors

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