Swing Out the Blues
Cast & Crew
Mal St. Clair
Bob Haymes
Lynn Merrick
The Vagabonds
Janis Carter
Tim Ryan
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Ken Stubbs, Biff Bunker, Torchy Martin and Clinker Scofield, four struggling musicians who comprise a band known as The Vagabonds, appear on a people's court radio program that deals with personal problems. To the moderator of the show, Judge Dudley Gordon, the musicians relate the story of their woes with their singer, Rich Cleveland: Unable to find work, the band is suffering financial difficulties when talent agent Dena Marshall hears Rich sing and offers him a job as a solo vocalist. When Rich refuses to break up with the group, Dena, disgusted by his obstinacy, offers them a job performing chamber music at the coming-out party of socialite Penelope Carstairs. Just before the boys arrive at the Carstairs estate, Penelope rejects a marriage proposal from Gregg Talbot, the man her dowdy aunt Amanda has chosen to be her husband. As Rich enters the room, Penny defiantly declares that she will marry the next man who walks in the door. The following morning, Amanda and Gregg learn of Penny's marriage to Rich. In the ensuing argument, Rich misinterprets Penny's reason for marrying him and storms out of the house. Penny follows Rich to New York and moves into his apartment. Soon after, Penny and Rich settle their differences and the band finds financial security performing at Pinelli's restaurant. Dena, who has fallen in love with Rich, determines to break up his marriage, threatening to ruin his career unless he obtains an annulment. When Penny discovers that Rich has been seeing Dena, she confronts him and Rich angrily storms out of the apartment. After quitting Pinelli's, he disappears. Pregnant, Penny stays alone at the apartment, refusing to return home to Amanda. Soon after the birth of Penny's son, Amanda and Gregg come to visit. To add to the confusion, Rich, wearing an RAF uniform, returns and upon seeing his son, reconciles with Penny. Returning to the present, the Vagabonds confide that they dreamed the whole story up to snag a sponsor.
Director
Mal St. Clair
Cast
Bob Haymes
Lynn Merrick
The Vagabonds
Janis Carter
Tim Ryan
Joyce Compton
Arthur Q. Bryan
Kathleen Howard
John Eldredge
Dick Elliott
Lotte Stein
Tor Johnson
Bill Hughes
Jeanne Romer
Lynn Romer
Fred Johnson
Leonora Johnson
Syd Saylor
George Ford
Ray Walker
Angi O. Poulos
Billy Lenhart
Kenneth Brown
Edith Evanson
George Mckay
Constance Purdy
George Davis
Forbes Murray
Chef Milani
Shimen Ruskin
Prince Waln
Kitty Kelly
Joanne Frank
Vi Athens
Hooper Atchley
Frank O'connor
Victor Travers
Heinie Conklin
Max Linder
Helen Foster
Eileen Coghlan
Stella Lesaint
Rose Plumer
Crew
Lionel Banks
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Effie I. Canning
Dorcas Cochran
Monty Collins
Rene Duplessis
Chet Forrest
Roger N. Fowler
Kim Gannon
L. Wolfe Gilbert
Victor Greene
Al Lewis
Franz Liszt
Doris Malloy
Arthur Martinelli
George Montgomery
Algy Moore
William Randall
Robert Saunders
Al Sherman
Max Steiner
M. W. Stoloff
Jerome Thoms
Sam White
Bob Wright
Allie Wrubel
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
The opening credits were taken from an incomplete print of the film. According to the Variety review, The Vagabonds musical group was comprised of Peter Peterson, Till Riaso, Al Torrieril and Don Germano.
