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Swing high, swing low – Historic Reproduction

Swing high, swing low — vintage poster
Swing high, swing low. Vintage poster from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Swing high, swing low, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This color poster advertises *Swing High, Swing Low*, the 1937 Paramount film that paired Carole Lombard with Fred MacMurray, two of the studio's busiest leading players of the late 1930s. The movie is a backstage story set in the world of jazz and dance bands, a subject that drew large audiences in the swing era, when big bands and their trumpet soloists were at the peak of their popularity. Lombard was then best known for her fast-talking screwball comedies, so a musical romance like this one showed her in a different register. The poster's date is estimated at about 1937, and its unsigned printing reflects how studios produced promotional material of this kind in quantity.

Medium1 print (poster) : color ; 28 x 35.5 cm.
Notes[S.l. : s.n.], c1937.
SubjectsLombard, Carole,--1908-1942--Performances. MacMurray, Fred,--1908---Performances.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan6,089 × 4,869 px · prints to 20 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-226023

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