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Released
1948 · FILM

A Song Is Born

...with the hottest men in music - beating out the rhythm with'm!

Directed by
Runtime
113 min
ComedyMusicMusical
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Daniel MandellShot by Gregg Toland

Box Office

1948 · Box office

Produced on a $2.4M budget

Production budget

$2.4M

Also known as

  • Die tollkühne Rettung der Gangsterbraut Holly Swansonde
  • Si bémol et Fa dièsefr
  • Venere e il professoreit

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