158 mins |
Rated
TBC
Kay Kyser Double Feature: Swing Fever & Carolina Blues
(Tim Whelan, 1943, 79 min/ Leigh Jason, 1944, 81 min) The Professor of Mirth, Melody, and Merriment, Kay Kyser, a local Chapel Hill legend, is on the band stand for two films filled with big band music! In Swing Fever, Kay Kyser plays an ambitious music composer, also gifted with a hypnotic "evil eye", who gets mixed up with promoting a boxer. In Carolina Blues (1944), Kyser has to replace his lead singer (Carroll) who has run off to get married. Caught in a jam, he reluctantly hires the daughter of a powerful defense plant owner, played by Ann Miller.
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Kay Kyser Double Feature: Swing Fever & Carolina Blues
(Tim Whelan, 1943, 79 min/ Leigh Jason, 1944, 81 min) The Professor of Mirth, Melody, and Merriment, Kay Kyser, a local Chapel Hill legend, is on the band stand for two films filled with big band music! In Swing Fever, Kay Kyser plays an ambitious music composer, also gifted with a hypnotic "evil eye", who gets mixed up with promoting a boxer. In Carolina Blues (1944), Kyser has to replace his lead singer (Carroll) who has run off to get married. Caught in a jam, he reluctantly hires the daughter of a powerful defense plant owner, played by Ann Miller.
