A Song Is Born (1948)

Directors

Howard Hawks

Cast

Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Barnet

The story

At the Totten Foundation of Music in New York City, mild-mannered Professor Hobart Frisbee and his six fellow musicologists have been compiling a comprehensive music encyclopedia for nine years. When their sponsor Miss Totten and her lawyer visit the foundation, threatening to cut off their funding due to the mounting cost of the encyclopedia, the older musicologists take advantage of her infatuation with Hobart to convince her to continue financing their project. Shortly after Miss Totten leaves, two Black window washers arrive seeking help with a radio musical quiz show, and end up introducing the musicologists to several forms of…

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