Killer Diller (1948 film)

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name = Killer Diller


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director = Josh Binney
producer = E. M. Glucksman
writer = Hal Seeger
starring = Dusty Fletcher
George Wiltshire
Butterfly McQueen
Four Congaroos
music = King Cole Trio
Andy Kirk and his Orchestra
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distributor = All American
released = flagicon|US 1948
runtime = 73 min.
country = U.S.A.
language = English
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imdb_id = 40508

"Killer Diller" is a 1948 American musical film which was released by All American.

The movie features the Clark Brothers (tap dancers), Nat King Cole, Moms Mabley, Dusty Fletcher, Butterfly McQueen, the Andy Kirk Orchestra and the Four Congaroos (dancing Lindy Hop).

The variety show is impressive. Ray Abrams & Gator Green play the two-tenor sax number "Gator Serenade" written by Green, supported by the rest of the Andy Kirk and His Orchestra. Beverly White sings the racy jazz tune "I Don't Want to Get Married." Her second song "Ain't Nobody's Business What I Do" is likewise racy, about the joy of carousing & cheating: "If I feel like going out and having some fun/ With some young cat who looks like he might be my son/ That ain't nobody's business what I do." The act of Warren Patterson & Al Jackson sing Jule Styne & Sammy Kahn's "I Believe," Warren leading off & Al doing his part as a Louis Armstrong impersonation. Then Al sings the Fats Waller classic "Ain't Misbehavin" as Warren tapdances. He is still dancing like crazy when Al adds "Wonderful One" to his medley. Lastly they impersonate the Ink Spots though there's only two of them to recreate "If I Didn't Care," Warren duplicating the tenor lead very nicely until he intentionally goes comical while Al does the spoken bridge with new silly words. Jackie "Moms" Mabley comes out & does some comedy. She sings the comic song "Don't Sit on My Bed." The Clark Brothers then do a tapdance. The King Cole Trio's up next. Nat at piano sings "Oo, Kickerooni." The trio follows this song with the Don Wolf & Alan Brandt composition "Now He Tells Me," another humorous bit of cool jazz, & The Trio closes with "Breezy and the Bass" written by Nat & Johnny "Breezy" Miller. An act called the Four Congaroos are next. They do the Lindy Hop while Andy Kirk's orchestra plays "Basie's Boogie." Kirk's Orchestra does two more songs, featuring guitar, bass guitar, and saxophone solos. The "Varietettes Dancing Girls" (from Katherine Durham's School of Dancing) close the show with Andy Kirk and His Orchestra backing them with "Apollo Groove."