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Swing Your Lady

1938, Movie, NR, 77 mins

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Humphrey Bogart approached his role in this silly musical comedy with all the enthusiasm of a mass murderer being dragged down the hall to the gas chamber. The straight Broadway play had been a fair success in New York, but the movie fared far less well. Bogart plays Ed Hatch, a wrestling promoter traveling in Kentucky with his one asset, numbskull wrestler Joe "The Wrestling Hercules" Skopapoulous (Nat Pendleton), an obvious parody of "The Weeping Greek from Cripple Creek,"... read more leave a comment
Year: 1938
Rated NR

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Cast
Humphrey Bogart: Ed Hatch
Penny Singleton: Cookie Shannon
Frank McHugh: Popeye Bronson
Louise Fazenda: Sadie Horn
Nat Pendleton: Joe "Hercules" Skopapoulos
Allen Jenkins: Shiner Ward

 

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Humphrey Bogart as a wrestling promoter? In Kentucky? Only Swing Your Lady (1938) can provide...
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Posted: 8/1/2008
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