Swing Your Lady

Swing Your Lady
File:Swing Your Lady FilmPoster.jpeg Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ray Enright
Produced by	Samuel Bischoff
Written by	Kenyon Nicholson (play) Charles Robinson (play) Joseph Schrank Maurice Leo
Starring	Humphrey Bogart Frank McHugh Louise Fazenda Ronald Reagan
Cinematography	Arthur Edeson
Production company	Warner Bros.
Release dates	January 8, 1938
Running time	77 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Swing Your Lady is a 1938 country musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright, starring Humphrey Bogart, and featuring Ronald Reagan.

Bogart was apparently becoming very disenchanted with the film roles that the Warner Brothers studios were offering him at this stage of his career; the following year he appeared in his only horror/sci-fi film, The Return of Doctor X, and these were two roles he never liked talking about when he became a major film star several years later; he considered his performance in Swing Your Lady the worst of his career. Swing Your Lady was listed in the 1978 book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.

Plot

Promoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits against a hillbilly Amazon blacksmith, Sadie Horn. Joe falls in love with her and won't fight, at least not until Sadie's beau, Noah, shows up.

Cast

Actor/Actress	Role
Humphrey Bogart	Ed Hatch
Frank McHugh	Popeye Bronson
Louise Fazenda	Sadie Horn
Nat Pendleton	Joe Skopapolous
Penny Singleton	Cookie Shannon
Allen Jenkins	Shiner Ward
Leon Weaver	Waldo Davis
Frank Weaver	Ollie Davis
June Weaver	Mrs. Davis (as Elviry Weaver)
Ronald Reagan	Jack Miller
Daniel Boone Savage	Noah Webster
Hugh O'Connell	Smith
Tommy Bupp	Rufe Horn
Sonny Bupp	Len Horn (as Sunny Bupp)
Joan Howard	Mattie Horn

References

• Swing Your Lady at IMDb
• Swing Your Lady at the TCM Movie Database
• Swing Your Lady at AllMovie