Babes On Swing Street (1944)
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At MGM, the studio's youth musicals were more rural than urban -- find a barn, get some friends together, and hey kids, let's put on a show. At Universal, for this musical for its young contract players, the atmosphere is more urban -- the kids at a settlement house, led by Trudy Costello… More At MGM, the studio's youth musicals were more rural than urban -- find a barn, get some friends together, and hey kids, let's put on a show. At Universal, for this musical for its young contract players, the atmosphere is more urban -- the kids at a settlement house, led by Trudy Costello (Peggy Ryan), have to raise $200 a month to support scholarships so that 10 of them can go to music school; they're helped by Carol Curtis (Ann Blyth), a wealthy young heiress who's in love with Billy Harper (Billy Dunn), who's too poor to afford the scholarship but also too proud to take her help. The kids decide to organize a night club for teenagers, and try to get help from Carol's eccentric uncle Malcolm (Leon Errol, who's never been comfortable with his upper-crust family's staid outlook on life. But standing in their way is Carol's aunt Martha Alma Kruger, who doesn't like music and sees no reason for her niece or any member of her family to be involved with this group of under-privileged kids. And running interference for the teenagers is her attorney, Dick Lorimer (Kirby Grant), who sympathizes with Carol and Malcolm and happens to like the director of the settlement house ({Anne Gwynne}) a great deal. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
- Directed By
- Edward C. Lilley
- Genres
- Musical & Performing Arts
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 27, 1944 Wide
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Cast
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Ann Blyth
as Carol Curtis
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Peggy Ryan
as Trudy Costello
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Andy Devine
as Joe Costello
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Leon Errol
as Malcolm Curtis
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Anne Gwynne
as Frances Carlyle
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Kirby Grant
as Dick Lorimer
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June Preisser
as Fern Wallace
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Alma Kruger
as Martha Curtis
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Sidney Miller
as Corny Panatowsky
- Leo Carrillo
- Freddie Slack & His Orchestra
- Marion Hutton
