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Somewhat Secret

  • 1939
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  • 21min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
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Tom Collins and Mary Howard in Somewhat Secret (1939)
ComedyMusicalRomanceShort

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaAt the Dimsdale Hall Finishing School, Assistant Dean Emily Godsall declares that any student who associates herself with swing music will be severely punished. Complications develop when sh... Leer todoAt the Dimsdale Hall Finishing School, Assistant Dean Emily Godsall declares that any student who associates herself with swing music will be severely punished. Complications develop when she finds out that her boyfriend, a chemistry professor at the school, is also a well-known ... Leer todoAt the Dimsdale Hall Finishing School, Assistant Dean Emily Godsall declares that any student who associates herself with swing music will be severely punished. Complications develop when she finds out that her boyfriend, a chemistry professor at the school, is also a well-known swing bandleader.

  • Dirección
    • Sammy Lee
  • Guionistas
    • Richard English
    • Julian Harmon
    • Mort Greene
  • Elenco
    • Mary Howard
    • Benny Rubin
    • Tom Collins
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    5.9/10
    126
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    • Dirección
      • Sammy Lee
    • Guionistas
      • Richard English
      • Julian Harmon
      • Mort Greene
    • Elenco
      • Mary Howard
      • Benny Rubin
      • Tom Collins
    • 5Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 1Opinión de los críticos
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  • Fotos3

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    Mary Howard
    Mary Howard
    • Assistant Dean Emily Godsall
    Benny Rubin
    Benny Rubin
    • Swingopater Trombonist
    Tom Collins
    Tom Collins
    • Benjamin 'Barrelhouse Benny' Barnes
    Mary Bovard
    • Alice, the Tattletale
    Herbert Ashley
    Herbert Ashley
    • Atlantic City Doorman
    • (sin créditos)
    Helen Chapman
    Helen Chapman
    • Student
    • (sin créditos)
    Bess Flowers
    Bess Flowers
    • Faculty Member
    • (sin créditos)
    Claire James
    • Student
    • (sin créditos)
    Lois Lindsay
    Lois Lindsay
    • Student
    • (sin créditos)
    Melba Marshall
    Melba Marshall
    • Student
    • (sin créditos)
    Oscar Rudolph
    • Atlantic City Call Boy
    • (sin créditos)
    Helen Seamon
    • Student
    • (sin créditos)
    Rose Terrell
    Rose Terrell
    • Student
    • (sin créditos)
    Phillip Terry
    Phillip Terry
    • Atlantic City Emcee
    • (sin créditos)
    Billy Wayne
    Billy Wayne
    • Swingopater Violinist
    • (sin créditos)
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      • Sammy Lee
    • Guionistas
      • Richard English
      • Julian Harmon
      • Mort Greene
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    6bkoganbing

    A jolt of jive

    Somewhat Secret stars Mary Howard as an assistant dean at a girl's school who has a real prejudice against swing music feeling it causes moral degeneracy.

    Little does she know that the chemistry professor she's been seeing Tom Collins is a former piano player, the famous Barrelhouse Barnes who is incognito because he thought he killed a man.

    Two former bandmates tell him that no one died and he goes with them to open at Atlantic City. But Howard hearing some of her charges will be heading their to sample the jive goes to.

    I think you can figure out what happens here. This is a bright and amusing short subject that has more than a jolt of jive in it.
    5Doylenf

    Silly swing vs. classical music with Mary Howard as prim schoolteacher...

    It's a wonder that June Allyson doesn't turn up in this MGM short at a time when she was doing exactly this sort of thing at Warner Bros. in their Vitaphone musicals.

    Instead, we have prim MARY HOWARD as a dedicated basher of swing music who suddenly changes her mind when her sweetheart goes off to Atlantic City where he plays piano in a swing festival. Sharp-eyed moviegoers will recognize PHILIP TERRY as the emcee of the dance festival.

    TOM COLLINS is the college professor who harbors a secret passion for swing music while working as a chemistry professor.

    Odd little short used a theme later taken and developed into a full-length feature by Warner Bros. when they did MY LOVE CAME BACK (swing music vs. classical) in 1940.
    7michael-perry-2

    Balboa! Jitterbug! 21 minutes of loopy fun

    "Somewhat Secret" is a hoot, imagine "Rock and Roll High School" set in 1939 and you'll have the right idea: bad schoolgirls who just want to dance are held back by their stuffy, repressed principal! The schoolmarm makes many hilarious melodramatic pronouncements against the evils of swing music and jitterbug, forbidding her schoolgirls to dance, all the while falling in love with the man she believes to be a stuffy chemistry professor -- but who is actually a swing bandleader in hiding. A cute filler well worth seeking out on cable. The final dance number features plenty of down & dirty jitterbug as well some authentic period balboa. Silly movie -- swell dancing.
    6planktonrules

    Emily needs to ease up a bit!

    This short film by MGM is set in a girls college. Assistant Dean Emily Godsall is a woman with a huge broom up her backside! She insists that Swing and Jitterbug music is evil and promises to punish anyone caught listening to this devil music. What she doesn't know is that her boyfriend, the chemistry professor, is also a musician who loves this sort of music. How will all this zaniness get worked out by the end of the film?

    "Somewhat Secret" is modestly entertaining and fairly well made. While it's not the sort of thing to change your life, it's a decent and enjoyable time-passer.
    Michael_Elliott

    Entertaining Short

    Somewhat Secret (1939)

    *** (out of 4)

    Fun spirited MGM short has an uptight Assistant Dean (Mary Howard) at an all girls school refusing to let the students listen to swing music. A gossiping student informs her that the girls have snuck off to a joint in Atlantic City and when the dean goes there she sees her fiancé performing the music. There were quite a few shorts made around this time dealing with swing or jitterbug and this here is without question one of the more entertaining ones. It's always fun to see this uptight teachers get knocked down a few blocks by realizing music isn't going to make people go crazy. In the end this is really a message picture to those against this type of music but it's a lot of fun from start to finish. The real highlight are a couple musical numbers, which will certainly have your leg shaking.

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    • Trivia
      Final film (of nine uncredited appearances) of Melba Marshall.
    • Citas

      Assistant Dean Emily Godsall: You have been sent here to be finished.

      [girls of Dimsdale Hall laugh]

      Assistant Dean Emily Godsall: I mean, to be polished, shall we say. And speaking of polish, we're all aware of an insidious menace that is invading the American scene. I am referring, of course, to what is vulgarly called: swing music. The uncouth and barbaric rhythm that is exercising a definite psychoneurotic affect on the youth of today. Therefore, girls, in order to protect you from this deleterious influence, we of the faculty must deliver this ultimatum: any girl caught listening to swing music or indulging in jitterbug gyrations will be subject to severe punishment.

      Alice, the Tattletale: [to another student] She's very strict. I guess that's because she's so old. She's twenty-six!

    • Bandas sonoras
      You and I Were Made for Love
      Written by Earl K. Brent and Mort Greene

      Played on piano by Tom Collins

      Sung by Mary Howard

      Also played as a swing arrangement on the jukebox for the dancers at Nick's Nook

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 29 de marzo de 1939 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Idioma
      • Inglés
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, Estados Unidos(Studio)
    • Productora
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • Tiempo de ejecución
      21 minutos
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      • Black and White
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