Watch Swing Hutton Swing (1937) Online

Singer-dancer Ina Ray Hutton started out on Broadway at age 8 and performed with the big bands of Harry James and Artie Shaw, but it was as a pioneering band leader herself in the 1930s that she made her name. Hutton organized her first all-women big band, Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears, in 1935. A few film appearances for the band and a starring role for Hutton in Ever Since Venus (1944), along with endless national touring, eventually led her to NBC and a musical variety show in 1956. In this Paramount short, one of a series directed by Fred Waller who went on to invent Cinerama, Hutton—grooving up front in her standard sheer evening dress—and the original Melodears, perform “Organ Grinder’s Swing Overture” followed by The Winstead Trio doing “The Bugle Call Rag.” Read More

Watch Swing Hutton Swing online. Featuring Ina Ray Hutton, Swing Hutton Swing is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 4.5. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was released on 1937. Swing Hutton Swing was directed by Fred Waller. Read Less