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• College Humor (1933) Dir: Wesley Ruggles with Bing Crosby.
• George White's Scandals of 1934 (1934) Dir: George White
• George White's Scandles of 1935 (1935) Dir: George White
• **A Day at the Races (1937, Marx Brothers) Whitey's Lindy Hoppers
• Hold That Coed (1938) Dir: George Marshall
• Jittering Jitterbugs (1938) Whitey's Lindy Hoppers do the Big Apple
• Prisoner Of Swing, The (1938) Dir: Roy Mack with Frankie Manning, Al Minns
• Radio City Revels (1938) - Whitey's Lindy Hoppers and Ann Miller
• Start Cheering (1938) Dir: Albert S. Rogell with Jimmy Durante, 3 Stooges
• Swing, Sister, Swing (1938) Dir: Joseph Stanley
• **Babes In Arms (1939) Dir: Busby Berkeley with Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland.
• The Groovie Movie - an early forties Pete Smith short, with some humor thrown in. G.I. Style dancers, some wacky bits
• Naughty But Nice (1939) Dir: Ray Enright
• **Bachelor Mother (1939) Directed by Garson Kanin with Ginger Rogers -- there's a swing dance contest scene.
• **Strike Up The Band (1940) Dir: Busby Berkeley with Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland
• Irene (1940) Dir: Herbert Wilcox
• Let's Make Music (1940) Dir: Leslie Goodwins with Dean Collins
• Mystery In Swing (1940) Dir: Arthur Dreifuss
• **Babes on Broadway (1941) Dir: Busby Berkeley with Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland.
• **Buck Privates (1941) Dir: Arthur Lubin with Abbott & Costello, Andrews Sisters Dean Collins
• Cottontail also known as Hot Chocolates (1941) Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, can be found on Harlem Harmonies 2
• Hellzapoppin' (1941) Whitey's Lindy Hoppers
• **Sun Valley Seranade (1941) starring Glenn Miller and his Orchestra with Lynn Bari; Also features the dancing tallents of the Nicholas Brothers
• **Mr and Mrs Smith (1941, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock), Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery find out that they aren't legally married. They fight and both start dating other people again. In one scene, she goes out with a Texas oilman. At a fancy nightclub, he decides to show off his dancing skills. It turns out that he knows a lot of Lindy steps.
• Dance Hall (1941) Dir: Irving Pichel with Dean Collins
• Playmates (1941) Dir: David Butler with Dean Collins
• The Gang's All Here (1942) Dir: Busby Berkeley with Benny Goodman
• **Holiday Inn (1942) The "Washington's Birthday" scene features Bing Crosby trying to screw up Fred's minuet. He plays all sorts of things (Conga, Rhumba) but in one break, they hit a swing riff and Fred reluctantly does a swing-out.
• **Orchaestra Wives (1942) with Glenn Miller and a great performance by Milton Berle
• The Powers Girl (1942) Dir: Norman Z. McLeod with Dean Collins
• **Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942) Dir: Arthur Lubin with Abbott & Costello and Dean Collins
• **Springtime In The Rockies (1942) Dir: Irving Cummings with Dean Collins
• **The Talk Of The Town (1942) with Dean Collins
• **They All Kissed The Bride (1942) Dir: Alexander Hall with Joan Crawford & Dean Collins
• Always A Bridesmaid (1943) Dir: Erle C. Kenton with Dean Collins
• **Cabin In The Sky (1943) Dir: Vincente Minnelli with Louis Armstrong, & Duke Ellington and his Orchestra; and Leon James and/or Al Mims
• Crazy House (1943) Dir: Edward F. Cline
• The Gang's All Here, also known as The Girls He Left Behind (1943). Features Benny Goodman.
• Jitterbugs (1943) Dir; Mal St. Clair with Laurel & Hardy;
• Jive Junction (1943) Dir: Edward G. Ulmer
• **Kid Dynamite (1943) Dir: Wallace Fox with Dean Collins
• **A Lady Takes a Chance (1943) [comedy] John Wayne, Jean Arthur. "A woman finds an unlikely candidate while husband-hunting in the West." There is a scene in which the "Swing Kings" (an all-black trio, inexplicably in an Arizona town, who vanish immediately after their number never to be seen again) play a great uptempo number; everyone in the bar does Lindy, including both Gabby Hayes ( who has a mean swing-out, by the way) and John Wayne.  Dir: William A. Seider
• **The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek (1943) Dir: Preston Sturges
• **Since you went away (1943) An airline hangar, full of dancers were shown performing high energy swing as well as the waltz and foxtrot.
• **Stage Door Canteen (1943, Dir. Frank Borzage) people Lindying to one of Kay Kiser's songs. Stars Katherine Hepburn and has both Benny Goodman and Count Basie in it.
• **Stormy Weather (1943) This stars Lena Horne, they mention Lindy Hop in a club scene (not much lindy in the scene, though) There is some Lindy, supposedly a basic and some Charleston moves. There is a number with Cab Calloway, but it is mostly a Hollywood musical. Also there is an entire chorus of Zoot suited dancers in the Finale.
• Young Ideas (1943) Dir: Jules Dassin with Dean Collins
• The Canterville Ghost (1944) Directed by Jules Dassin with Margaret O'Brien -- there's a scene with some GI's dancing in it.
• **Follow The Boys (1944) Dir: A. Edward Sutherland, two soldiers dancing together (very brief scene)
• **Four Jills In A Jeep (1944) Dir: William Seiter
• Ghost Catchers (1944) - Trying to scare away Wilbur the Ghost, A Zoot Suited Olsen and Johnson team lead some Partying revellers in a Swingin house party!
• **Here Come The Waves (1944) Dir: Mark Sandrich with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra
• **Hollywood Canteen (1944) Dir: Delmer Daves with Bette Davis
• Swing Fever (1944) - I'm told it features Jean Veloz (although I don't see her listed on the credits in the IMDB) - the number is called "One Girl and Two Boys"
• George White's Scandals of 1945 (1945) Dir: Felix Feist with Dean Collins & Gene Krupa
• **The Horn Blows At Midnight (1945) Dir: Raoul Walsh with Jack Benny & Dean Collins
• Twice Blessed (1945) Dir: Harry Beaumont
• Junior Prom (1946) Dir: Arthur Dreifuss with Dean Collins
• Till The End Of Time (1946) Dir: Edward Dmytryk, choreographed by Dean Collins
• **Make Mine Music (1946) Director: Joshua Meador, Jack Kinney, Disney Animated, there's a segment called "All the Cats Join in" with Lindy Hop in it, ASIN: B00004R99A
• **Juke Joint (1947) Dir: Spencer Williams with The Jitterbug Johnnies
• Killer Diller (1948), Frankie Manning the Congaroo Dancers
• **Summer Stock (1950) also known as If You Feel Like Singing
  Gene Kelly and Judy Garland (2-3 minute clip)
• **The Glenn Miller Story(1953) Director: Anthony Mann
• Living It Up (1954) Dir: Norman Taurog with Dean Collins
• **Benny Goodman Story (1955) Dir: Valentine Davies with Steve Allen, Donna Reed.
• Running Wild (1955) Dir: Abner Biberman
• **To Hell And Back (1955) Dir: Jesse Hibbs
• **Bundle Of Joy (1956) Dir: Norman Taurog with Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds.
• Don't Knock The Rock (1956) Dir: Fred F. Sears
• **The Girl Can't Help It (1956) Dir: Frank Tashlin
• Rock Around The Clock (1956)
• That Certain Feeling (1956) Dir: Melvin Frank with Bob Hope
• Calypso Heat Wave (1957) Dir: Fred F. Sears
• **Carnival Rock (1957) Dir: Roger Corman
• Mr. Rock & Roll (1957) Dir: Charles Dubin
• Untamed Youth (1957) Dir Howard Koch
• Juke Box Rhythm (1959) Dir: Arthur Dreifuss
• **The Jungle Book (1967) Disney Animated
• **They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) - possibly has Lindy?
• **1941 (1979, Director, Spielberg) there is a jitterbug contest at the USO
• **Zoot Suit (1981, Dir. Luis Valdez) features Edward James Olmos. It has some Lindy Hop in the opening sequence. I believe that Lucy at El Pachuco in Fullerton made the costumes.
• **Cannery Row (1982, Dir. David S. Ward), Nick Nolte and Debra Winger almost kill themselves trying to learn "over the top."
• Call of the Jitterbug (1988) Documentary on Lindy Hop
• **Malcolm X (1992) -- Ryan Francois is one of the dancers
• **Sneakers (1992) In the party scene, Dan Akroyd does what appears to be a swing-out with his partner. The whole shot probably lasts less than three or four seconds, but hey, its still there.
• Stomping at the Savoy (1993)
• **Swing Kids (1993)
• Cootie Williams Film Vodvil No. 2 (?)

Movies With Other Types Swing

• **San Francisco (1936) Dir: W.S. Van Dyke with Clark Gable, not swing, but cake walk
• Belles On Their Toes (1952) Dir: Henry Levin, Shag Dancers
• **West Side Story (1961) Dir: Robert Wise, Choreographer: Jerome Robbins with Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, Great dancing even if it's not swing....
• **The Mask (1994) OK, so it's not Lindy Hop, but the band is Royal Crown Revue
• **Grease (1978), Again, there's no Lindy Hop, but it certainly is a film that dancers love...
• **Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Judy Garland & Margaret O'Brien -- may or may not have Lindy in it
• **A League of Their Own (1992): Swing dancing in a bar -- probably not Lindy
• **Swingers (1996) - a slice of the L.A. Swing scene, however, not the slice that I hang out with -- it doesn't have Lindy Hop in it, but some people associate it with the L.A. Swing Scene (The Derby is featured in it)
• Chicken Run (2000) Directed by Peter Lord & Nick Park -- There's a good scene of the chickens dancing east coast swing in this one.
• Black 'n' Blue A Broadway play that earned Frankie Manning a Tony for his choreography

Other Video Related Links

• Lindy Hop Compilations and Documentaries
• Swing Dance Movie Archive
• Movies and Videos with Early Lindy Hop
• Groovie Movie on YouTube
• SwingLindy: Assortment of Swing Related Music, Videos, Clothing, etc. to purchase
• Nostalgic Treasures, Vintage Videos
• Natch.Net Video Clips Has a great selection of clips from Buck Privates, Day At The Races, Hellzapoppin', Groovy Movie, etc.
• There's a book by Christian Batchelor called This Thing Called Swing. Apart from tracing the parallel development of swing music and swing dancing it is supposed to have a good list of dance films.

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