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Sweet and Low-Down

Sweet and Low-Down

Music, Romance

1h 16m

September 21, 1944 (80 years ago)

Overview

After their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are packing up to go to their next engagement when a kid steals Goodman's clarinet. Goodman and Popsie pursue him to a tenement flat where he has led them to hear his brother play the trombone. Shenanigans ensue following Goodman's offering the brother a job with the band.

ActorAge thenAge now
Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman

Birthday: May 30, 1909

35 June 13, 1986 (77)
Linda Darnell

Linda Darnell

Trudy Wilson

Birthday: October 16, 1923

20 April 10, 1965 (41)
Jack Oakie

Jack Oakie

Popsy

Birthday: November 12, 1903

40 January 23, 1978 (74)
Lynn Bari

Lynn Bari

Pat Stirling

Birthday: December 18, 1913

30 November 20, 1989 (75)
James Cardwell

James Cardwell

Johnny Birch

Birthday: November 21, 1920

23 January 31, 1954 (33)
Allyn Joslyn

Allyn Joslyn

Lester Barnes

Birthday: July 21, 1901

43 January 21, 1981 (79)
John Campbell

John Campbell

Dixie Zang

Birthday: November 11, 1914

29 December 2, 1982 (68)
Roy Benson

Roy Benson

Skeets McCormick

Birthday: January 17, 1914

30 December 6, 1977 (63)
Dickie Moore

Dickie Moore

Military Cadet General 'Mogie' Cramichael

Birthday: September 12, 1925

19 September 7, 2015 (89)