Hitting a New High (1937)
Thrill to the Voice that makes Swing Song Sounds..Hear Her Trilling Those Golden Arias!
85 min
A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.
- Release date
- December 24, 1937
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Lily Pons as Suzette, aka Oogahunga, the Bird-Girl
- Jack Oakie as Corny Davis
- John Howard as Jimmy James
- Eric Blore as Cedric Cosmo, aka Captain Braceridge Hemingway
- Edward Everett Horton as Lucius B. Blynn
- Eduardo Ciannelli as Andreas Mazzini
- Luis Alberni as Luis Marlo
- Vinton Hayworth as Carter Haig
- Leonard Carey as Jervons, Blynn's Butler
- John Alban as Party Guest
Crew
- Raoul Walsh · Director
- Robert Harari · Writer
- Maxwell Shane · Writer
- Gertrude Purcell · Writer
- John Twist · Writer
- Jesse L. Lasky · Producer
- J. Roy Hunt · Cinematographer
- Desmond Marquette · Editor