Sing as You Swing
1937 film
- Clifford Grey
- Syd Courtenay
- Charles Clapham
- Bill Dwyer
- Claude Dampier
- Evelyn Dall
- Erwin Hillier
- Jack Parker
Production
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Joe Rock Productions
Release date
- 7 July 1937 (1937-07-07)
Running time
Sing as You Swing is a 1937 British musical film directed by Redd Davis and starring Charles Clapham, Bill Dwyer and Claude Dampier. It was made as a quota quickie and features turns from a variety of radio and revue stars with little background narrative.[1]
The film's sets were designed by the art director George Provis. It was shot at Joe Rock's Elstree Studios.
Cast
- Charles Clapham as himself
- Bill Dwyer as himself
- Claude Dampier as Pomphrey Featherstone-Chaw
- Billie Carlyle as Telephone Operator
- The Mills Brothers as Themselves
- Evelyn Dall as Cora Fane
- Mantovani as himself
- Lu Ann Meredith as Sally Bevan
- Brian Lawrance as Jimmy King
- Carol Chilton as herself
- Maceo Thomas as himself
- Nat Gonella and His Georgians as Themselves
- Beryl Orde as herself
- H. F. Maltby as Drake
- Edward Ashley as Harrington
- Rio & Santos as Themselves
- Jimmy Godden
- Eric Maturin
- The Sherman Fisher Girls as Themselves
References
- ^ Chibnall p.291
Bibliography
- Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film (British Film Institute, 2007)
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain (George Allen & Unwin, 1985)
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939 (British Film Institute, 1986)
External links
- Sing as You Swing at IMDb
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Films directed by Redd Davis
- The Spare Room (1932)
- Here's George (1932)
- Excess Baggage (1933)
- The Umbrella (1933)
- The Medicine Man (1933)
- Send 'em Back Half Dead (1933)
- Ask Beccles (1933)
- Seeing Is Believing (1934)
- The Girl in the Flat (1934)
- Easy Money (1934)
- Say It with Diamonds (1935)
- On Top of the World (1936)
- Excuse My Glove (1936)
- King of the Castle (1936)
- Underneath the Arches (1937)
- Variety Hour (1937)
- Sing as You Swing (1937)
- Calling All Ma's (1937)
- Special Edition (1938)
- Anything to Declare? (1938)
- Discoveries (1939)
- That's the Ticket (1940)
- The Balloon Goes Up (1942)
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