A Song Is Born (1948)
...with the hottest men in music - beating out the rhythm with'm!
Director: Howard Hawks · Writers: Thomas Monroe, Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks
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.
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Director
Howard Hawks
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 
Ford Washington Lee
Buck 
John 'Bubbles' Sublett
Bubbles 
Page Cavanaugh
Page Cavanaugh
Al Viola
Al Viola User Reviews (1)
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 dictionary of music and soon the hapless "Prof. Frisbee" (Kaye) is eating out of her hand. The gangster elements of the plot are just a little too contrived: her boyfriend "Crow" (Steve Cochran) maintains this new situation to keep her from testifying against him - until, that is - he can make arrangements to marry her, but in the meantime might she start to fall for poor old "Frisbee"? Neither lead are on…
