Sweet and Low-Down is a 1944 film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Benny Goodman and Linda Darnell.
[2] The film was a fictionalized version of life with Goodman, his band, and their manager while entertaining at military camps.
The song "I'm Making Believe" (lyrics by Mack Gordon; music by James V. Monaco) was nominated for an Academy Award.
[3] A young trombonist lets his newfound success go to his head when he is invited to join the Benny Goodman Orchestra.
Lynn Bari seems to have been typecast by Fox as a big band singer, playing the role in Sun Valley Serenade (1941) and Archie Mayo's Orchestra Wives (1942).