Swing Wedding (1937)

8m
Running Time

February 12, 1937
Release Date

Swing Wedding (1937)

8m
Running Time

February 12, 1937
Release Date

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Plot.

This film is very reminiscent of "Cabin in the Sky", in that you have a very sexy Ethel Waters about to be married to Stepin Fetchit. Fetchit's friends Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller are trying to get him to the church on time, but Stepin isn't in any hurry to get hitched.

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Release Date
February 12, 1937

Status
Released

Running Time
8m

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Wiki.

Swing Wedding is a 1937 MGM Happy Harmonies cartoon directed by Hugh Harman.A "sequel" to the 1936 short The Old Mill Pond, the cartoon portrays a wedding celebrated by a group of frogs in a swamp. The frogs are designed as caricatures of various African American celebrities of the 1930s, such as Ethel Waters, Stepin Fetchit, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller and the Mills Brothers.

Though hailed as "'one of the finest one-reelers in all of animation" by some commentators, others have derided the use of Zip Coon-type figures and stereotypical dialogue (including expressions such as "Who dat?" and "Yowza!"). The film also contains a controversial scene in which a frog musician uses his trumpet valve as a syringe. The scene plays on the stereotype of black jazz musicians using drugs before performing.This cartoon was re-released in a shorter version called "Hot Frogs" in 1942 as a "soundies" format.

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