Swing Your Lady

Swing Your Lady
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. Years later, Swing Your Lady was included as one of the choices in the 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

References

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