Swing Out the Blues is a 1944 American romantic comedy film directed by Malcolm St. Clair and starring Bob Haymes, Lynn Merrick, and Janis Carter.

[2] Rich Cleveland and the Vagabonds are a swing band in financial difficulties.

Rich, the lead singer, (Bob Haymes) marries wealthy socialite Lynn Merrick (Penelope Carstairs).

The threat that Rich and Lynn will abandon the band forms the conflict in the comic narrative.

[3] Director St. Clair, a veteran of the silent film era, included a lengthy “film-within-a-film” that parodies the early Mack Sennett comedies and appears “in the guise of a home movie.”[4]