A Song Is Born
...with the hottest men in music - beating out the rhythm with'm!
Overview
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.
- Budget
- $2,400,000
- Production
- Samuel Goldwyn Productions
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Cast
Danny Kaye
Hobart Frisbee
Virginia Mayo
Honey Swanson
Benny Goodman
Professor Magenbruch
Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton
Charlie Barnet
Charlie Barnet
Mel Powell
Mel Powell
John 'Bubbles' Sublett
Bubbles
Page Cavanaugh
Page Cavanaugh
Orlandus Wilson
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
Howland Chamberlain
Mr. Setter
Paul Langton
Joe
Crew
- Director
- Howard Hawks
- Writers
- Billy Wilder,Thomas Monroe
- Producers
- Samuel Goldwyn
- Cinematography
- Gregg Toland
- Composer
- Hugo Friedhofer,Emil Newman,Don Raye
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CinemaSerf
July 9, 2022
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) takes refuge from the pursuing FBI with a bunch of dithery professors creating an over budget dictionar…