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Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray in Swing High, Swing Low (1937)

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Swing High, Swing Low

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According to legend, the trend toward women not wearing hats began with this movie. Maggie (Carole Lombard) enters a restaurant and removes her hat, something previously taboo with women.
The scene showing Maggie (Carole Lombard) burning her beauty parlor customer's hair off is based in fact. If left in the permanent wave machine too long, hair would burn off.
A studio press-book for this film notes this is the first picture where Carol Lombard tap dances, and that she learned to do so specifically for this film by taking lessons from LeRoy Prinz. She also received vocal coaching from Al Siegel.
According to critic David Thomson, in his article "You and the Night and the Music", published in the June 2003 issue of British magazine Sight & Sound, Twentieth Century-Fox destroyed every copy except one -director Mitchell Leisen's- when they remade it as "When My Baby Smiles at Me" (1948). So, it seems that the movie only survives because its director kept a copy, unless the negatives or a better quality copy are found.
This was likely in the old MCA package of Paramount features, so there must be a master negative or at least pristine print somewhere, yet when shown on TCM in 2020, a weary, beat up copy that looked as though it were a soft-focus kinescope was used. Is this a film so rare that only a print like this could be found.

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