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Swing Out, Sister

1945 film directed by Edward C. Lilley

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia

Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0

Source revisionFeb 20, 2026

Entity authorityQ7658579 ↗

Source-derived summary

Swing Out, Sister is a 1945 American musical comedy film directed by Edward C. Lilley and starring Arthur Treacher, Rod Cameron and Billie Burke.

Plot

Two people get jobs anonymously at a jazz club without telling their upper-class families.

Cast

Rod Cameron as Geoffrey Cabot

Billie Burke as Jessica Mariman

Arthur Treacher as Chumley

Frances Raeburn as Penelope Mariman / "Donna Leslie"

Jacqueline deWit as Pat Cameron

Samuel S. Hinds as Rufus Mariman

Fuzzy Knight as Clutch

Milburn Stone as Tim Colby

Cultural reference

The English pop duo Swing Out Sister took its name from the film.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Swing Out, Sister” as 1945 film directed by Edward C. Lilley. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1945—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1945-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Swing, Sister and film can be independently traced.

Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1945 film directed by Edward C. Lilley. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7658579. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1945.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for

Identifying works and editions
Tracing reception history
Finding collection records

Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

Establish the record: confirm the title “Swing Out, Sister”, its source revision and the description used here.
Expand the search: follow Swing Out, Sister primary sources, Swing Out, Sister archive and Swing research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Swing Out, Sister” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.