What’s Cookin’?

Year: 1942

Runtime: 69 mins

Language: English

Director: Edward F. Cline

ComedyMusic

A jazzy, high‑energy romp introduces a cast of swing stars. J.P. Courtney hopes to modernize the music on the radio show he sponsors, but his wife Agatha, a devotee of classical tunes, refuses to replace Professor Bistell’s symphonic orchestra. With his daughter Sue, her friends Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, singer Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they plot to sabotage Bistell, clearing the way for a fresh, swing‑filled sound on the program.

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