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Bandleader Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.Bandleader Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.Bandleader Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.
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- TriviaVitaphone production reel #B220.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story (2002)
- SoundtracksCoquette
(uncredited)
Music by Carmen Lombardo and Johnny Green
Performed by Frances Carroll and The Coquettes
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Women Bands proved they could swing just as good as Men Bands!
If you catch this film short on Turner Classic Movies you won't be sorry, you will treasure this great musical short. I happen to catch it on Turner Classic Movies one morning, and I love and treasure this. Girl Bands and Orchestra were very popular in the 1940s, when the men were serving in the War, women bands were put together to keep the swinging going. Frances Carroll is beautiful she looks like a movie star, she really can dance while singing and leading the band, she has some great hand movements with that stick. Viola Smith the drummer of the band really is "getting down", she play the drums better then the men drummer. Eunice Healey tap dances also in this short with the band playing behind her. The Coquettes is a great band, great loud, clear sound, their really swinging. They made me want to get up and dance, and I'm sure they'll make you wanna get up and dance. They play 5 numbers in just 10 minutes. But its very fulfilled. Well, bands like Frances Carroll and The Coquettes sure proved they had what it tooked and they could make the world swing just as good as the men bands, bands like these were very much in demand. But, sadly today Women Bands don't get much recognition and honor as much as the men musicians, and the women worked just as hard as the men. But people today are becoming interested in women bands of that time. Frances Carroll and The Coquettes, International Sweethearts of Rhythm, and others were great and had beauty, class, and talent, and their finally getting their recognition and honor. If you wanna read about female bands of the 1930s and 1940s there's a very informative book out by Sherrie Tucker called Swing Shift: All Girls Bands of the 1940s.
- msladysoul
- Apr 1, 2003
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- Melody Masters (1939-1940 season) #5: Frances Carroll and the Coquettes
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- Runtime10 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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