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  1. 2 hours ago, RosieSayer said:

    Fedya, I'm drawing a blank on the Strange Inntertube scene. Where does that come in?

    I don't remember exactly when in the movie it comes, but Tracy and Bennett are talking, and tracy (if memory serves) brings up having seen a strange movie called Strange Innertube, which is of course a play on the then-recent movie Strange Interlude.  The conceit of Strange Interlude was that we could hear the characters' thoughts in voiceover, so we get a similar scene where they talk to each other while we also get to hear their real thoughts, which are not what they're saying to each other.

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  2. 10 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:

    How he got associated with Moon River is a terrific story. When it was up for the Oscar, Mercer and Mancini asked him to come to the Academy Awards and sing the song. He's been associated with it ever since. At that time, he had already recorded his Moon River album only a month before the song won the Oscar.

    At his concerts Andy used to call Moon River: " The gift that just keeps on giving."

     

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  3. 4 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:

    No it has nothing to do with how a song is done or the genre.   It is because there are no known recorded versions by the songwriter. 

    Not always:

    Actually, quite a few clips of Mercer singing appeared in the documentary TCM ran on him several years back.

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  4. Doll Face (1945).

    Vivian Blaine plays a character based on Gypsy Rose Lee (who gets a story credit under her real name Louise Hovick), who wants to perform on Broadway but isn't considered cultured enough.  So her boyfriend (Dennis O'Keefe) gets the idea to have an author (Stephen Dunne credited as Michael Dunne) ghost-write Blaine's autobiography.  Said boyfriend then gets the mistaken impression that she's falling in love with the author.  Carmen Miranda plays Chita Chula in an Eve Arden role as the wisecracking female sidekick who actually has a lot of common sense; Miranda gets just one musical number at the end.

    Competent, but nothing special.  It's amazing that they only gave Miranda one song, and gave a substantial role to the ultra-bland Perry Como.  Miranda, however, gets the movie's best scene when O'Keefe tells Chita that she'd be a hit on Broadway and become the next Carmen Miranda.  Chita gets rather offended by the idea.  :D

    6/10

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