What's Cookin'?
It's A Swingeroo... Rootin', zootin' swing-stars... 'teen-stars... hot licks and hep-cats!
1942 | 69m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Edward F. Cline |
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| Writer: | Stanley Roberts, Jerome Cady, Edgar Allan Woolf |
| Staring: |
| J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program. | |
| Release Date: | Feb 20, 1942 |
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| Director: | Edward F. Cline |
| Writer: | Stanley Roberts, Jerome Cady, Edgar Allan Woolf |
| Genres: | |
| Keywords | slang, professor, singer, radio program, sabotage, swing music |
| Production Companies | Universal Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 19, 2026 Entered: Apr 29, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Patty Andrews | Patty Andrews |
| Maxene Andrews | Maxene Andrews |
| Laverne Andrews | Laverne Andrews |
| Jane Frazee | Anne Payne |
| Robert Paige | Bob J. Riley |
| Gloria Jean | Sue Courtney |
| Leo Carrillo | Marvo the Great |
| Charles Butterworth | J. P. Courtney |
| Billie Burke | Agatha Courtney |
| Grace McDonald | Angela |
| Donald O'Connor | Tommy |
| Susan Levine | Tag-a-Long (as Tag-a-Long) |
| Peggy Ryan | Peggy |
| Franklin Pangborn | Professor Bistell |
| Charles Lane | K.D. Reynolds |
| Woody Herman | Woody Herman - Orchestra Leader |
| Eddie Acuff | Doorman (uncredited) |
| Leonard Carey | Butler |
| Charles Coleman | Butler |
| Esther Dale | Mrs. Murphy (uncredited) |
| Herbert Evans | Butler |
| Edward Gargan | Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed) |
| Ray Walker | Happy (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Stanley Roberts | Screenplay |
| Jerome Cady | Screenplay |
| Arthur Hilton | Editor |
| Jerome Ash | Director of Photography |
| Vera West | Costume Designer |
| Jack Otterson | Art Direction |
| Edward F. Cline | Director |
| Edgar Allan Woolf | Story |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
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| 2024 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2024 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 2025 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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