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Author: 3dogmom
Date: 2006-03-09 02:29
I just watched a great film on TCM, "A Song Is Born" from 1948 with Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo and a pile of jazz greats. I missed, however, the name of the clarinet player. Was it Goodman? Anybody know?
Sue Tansey
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Author: GBK
Date: 2006-03-09 02:37
Benny Goodman (who also had an acting part in the film) ...GBK
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Author: GoatTnder
Date: 2006-03-09 04:38
"Benny Goodman? Who's Benny Goodman?" That's one of my favorite movies, and definitely my favorite Danny Kaye flick.
-Andy Cabrera
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2006-03-09 14:04
...and Charlie Barnett, and Louis Armstrong and a host of others from the era. As entertainment sort of schlocky, and not much to listen to in the music department, but seeing all of them together is a bit of a visual treat.
In his biography, Charlie Barnett (who was certainly not shy about going into any other of the many sordid details of his life) had very little to say about the film.
As an actor, Goodman makes a pretty good clarinet player. Still, back in the 1930's and 1940's, this sort of "cross pollination" was expected of music and sports folks, and there were any number of eminently forgettable movies of this type where Babe Ruth or some other "fish out of water" would show up.
The "attack through music" sequence late in the film, where the assembled "music nerds" face down the gangster second male lead by playing their instruments at him, isn't the sort of thing we'd want to see these days. With Billy Wilder credited as a writer for this thing, you would think that they could have done better.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2006-03-09 17:51
DERN IT [or stronger!], Song was on TCM last nite, missed it, will look for rerun. Scanning our TV Sched., I see that Artie Shaw WAS part of the cast for Dancing Co-Ed [3 stars] with LANA, today, 10 AM, CST, TCM. Missed it too. Will now keep watch !! One of your favs?, Terry ?? Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2006-03-09 20:28
Sorry, Don. My tastes run more along the lines of Double Indemnity, the Wilder vehicle starring Fred MacMurray (bad guy), Babs Stanwick (very bad girl) and Edward G. Robinson (the good guy, believe it or not). I'm a fan of Wilder's stuff throughout the era, but not of the "formula pictures" like A Song Is Born.
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