Me, too, although I doubt I'll have an overnight inspiration.
This is a repeat movie - Oldie:
Two ritzy people
Easter Parade - A Couple of Swells
I can't remember if we've done Easter Parade before, but it's the only song I can think of.
Yes to A Couple of Swells. I thought you had asked a song from Easter Parade. Sorry if I misled you. Oh, I was thinking of Royal Wedding. For some reason I get those movies confused. Sorry.
No need to apologize -- A Couple of Swells came to mind immediately, so there was no misleading!
I need to do some work this morning, but work only takes up part of my brain, so I'll try to use the rest of my brain to think of another song while I'm working (which could be dangerous)!
LOL
Bree: Just an aside that I found amusing because a 1935 movie, I Dream Too Much, was listed in our local paper as starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda.( Lucille Ball appeared for less than a minute in a group scene.) Lily Pons was the star. Anyway, I watched the movie in the wee hours of the morning, and heard four Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields songs for the very first time performed by Pons, in addition to The Bell Song from Lakme and Caro Nome from Rigoletto. They were, I Dream too Much; I Got Love; I'm the Echo, and The Jockey on the Carousel (which Pons perfomed on a carousel in France, with full male chorus, and which I really enjoyed) I thought it rather odd that those four Kern songs never resurfaced.
Whew -- busy day at work. They actually made me work for my paycheck today, so I had no time for A2K.
I Dream Too Much sounds great. I'll have to keep an eye out for it if it ever shows up on TV here. I've never heard of any of those Kern songs, and I thought I knew pretty much everything he wrote. Noncausal synchronicity being what it is, I'll probably see the sheet music for one of those songs on eBay any day now!
Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if the sheet music turns up. (lol)
It was the movie debut of Lily Pons and the only time I've seen her. I was surprised at how tiny she was and her husband in the movie (Fonda) mentioned her size in contrast to her powerful voice numerous times throughout the film.
Heres one from an oldie, but a fairly well-known (I think) movie:
You won't need a ladder to get to Heaven. I'll provide another means of access.
An American in Paris - I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise
YES to An American in Paris. I was so impressed by Gueteray the first time I saw that movie. I don't know how he'd seem today.
I knew the song title right away, from your description, but couldn't remember what movie it was from. While I was searching imdb for the movie, I discovered that the song is also going to be used in The Aviator, the biopic about Howard Hughes (with Leonardo DiCaprio as Hughes) which is scheduled to be released later this year.
Curiously, I had just read an article about The Aviator in a copy of People magazine that's floating around the office. The casting is intriguing: Cate Blanchett plays Katharine Hepburn, Kate Beckinsale is Ava Gardner, and Jude Law is Errol Flynn.
I think Blanchett and Law will be great (although I'm a little bit bummed that they couldn't find an American actress to play Hepburn), but Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner seems all wrong somehow. Someone I know said he thought Catherine Zeta-Jones would be better suited to play Gardner, and I think he's right.
Very interesting, Bree. Isn't it funny that you thought of Cate Blanchett and we both thought of Katharine Hepburn to play ESVM. I'm not at all familiar with Kate Beckinsale, but I do agree that Catherine Zeta-Jones would be a good choice to play Gardner. I just checked out The Aviator on IMDB. I was curious as to who would play Jean Harlow, but I'm not familiar with that actress either.
Okay, you got me curious, so I looked up The Aviator on IMDb too! Gwen Stefani will be Jean Harlow. She's the lead singer for the pop band No Doubt and is very pretty. It's her first acting role, so hopefully she won't be called upon to do much besides look good.
It sounds like a great cast though - I'm looking forward to it. Cate Blanchett talked about it on her Inside the Actors Studio interview which was rerun recently - about how hard it was to play someone who is so famous and widely imitated already.
Is "Inside the Actors" a TV show, Mac?
I just watched 4 Harlow oldies on TCM. (This week they are featuring a 24 hour stint of screen legends.) Harlow was a beauty, but most of her films depicted her as a brazen toughie with an irritating voice which at times was quite annoying. And, I think that's a shame because in one of the films, - I think it was "Reckless" (It was on in the wee hours, and I dozed intermittently between movies) - she played an entirely different type, - a dramatic quiet, charming role - and was a real delight.
I'm looking forward to The Aviator, too.
Inside the Actors Studio is on Bravo on cable. It's an hour (sometimes two hour) show of one-on-one interviews with mostly actors, sometimes musicians or directors. The interviewer is kind of silly, I think, and all but fawns on the interviewees. But they have lots of interesting people on who you don't get to see in-depth much.
New shows are on Sunday evenings, and reruns are on all the time, it seems. I think they're between seasons and just running reruns in the summer.
Thanks Mac. I remember you mentioning that show some time ago. I like interview shows and will check it out.
I seldom remember to watch Inside the Actors Studio, but when I do remember, I usually enjoy it. The last one I watched was the interview with Hugh Jackman, who was (no surprise there) as charming as can be.
"Silly" is a good word for James Lipton, but "pompous" also comes to mind. However, I have to admit he does his homework before every interview, and often digs up interesting, little-known facts about the interviewees.
For more on the show, see
Inside the Actors Studio
Thanks for the link bree. It's one of my favorite shows. The schedule is listed thru the end of September and those are all reruns. I'm looking forward to some new shows.
