A Song Is Born: Fabulous Music But a Waste of Danny Kaye

There are many places to watch free movies online, but the seats listed below has the largest number of films that are available for your computer or your TV, and valid for use. Many websites also have free movie apps so you can access the free movies on your mobile device. View free movies online is a simple and frugal way to watch a movie that you like from the comfort of your own home. What you need to watch the movie online free is a computer or a TV with an internet connection. There is also a free movies that you can download under the public domain, as well as free movies just for kids and more free documentaries. If you do not find free movies you are looking for, be sure to check how to free DVD rental, plus free movies and Redbox free movie tickets to penayangan near you. In the event of the summer time and the kids they love movies as much as you can check all the theater where you can watch movies free summer. This is not a movie clip or trailer, you are free to end the full length film that can you see starts with perhaps some commercial breaks. All genres of movies are available also from comedy to drama from horror to action. There are film-studio large studio to see old movies or free-many of us like alert. You can also find out the best place to watch TV for free online, so do not miss any of their favorite shows. When you subscribe to streaming services like Netflix or Hulu, I have all the details about sharing passwords. Read this guide to find out what you need to watch these free movies online. You can also find a comparison of the top free movie sites when you focus on each other.

Streaming Movie-

Danny Kaye as Hobart Frisbee.

A musical remake of Ball of Fire must have been one of the easiest pitches of all time. After all, the original 1941 comedy--penned by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett--was about a bunch of academics writing an encyclopedia about music. Ball of Fire starred Gary Cooper as a naïve musicologist and Barbara Stanwyck as a brash nightclub singer who shakes up his world. The remake, A Song Is Born substitutes Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. It retains the plot, adds songs, and features many of the finest musicians working in the U.S. in 1948. How could it go wrong?

It gets off to a promising start with Professor Hobart Frisbee (Kaye) realizing that music has changed in the seven years that he and his colleagues have sequestered themselves to write their encyclopedia. To gain an appreciation for this "new" music, Frisbee embarks on a tour of New York City nightclubs. This serves as a great excuse for a musical montage featuring Tommy Dorsey, the Golden Gate Quartette, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Barnet, and others.

Virginia Mayo as Honey.

Frisbee also encounters Honey Swanson (Mayo), a pretty singer who needs to find a place to lay low when the police close in on her gangster boyfriend. Honey decides that Frisbee's Totten Music Foundation would be the ideal temporary hideout--never mind that she'd be living with seven intellectual bachelors.

Given the source material, music, and Danny Kaye, I expected A Song Is Born to be much better than a middling musical that smolders without catching fire. Except for the opening jungle chant number, Kaye neither sings nor dances. In his Kaye biography Nobody's Fool, author Martin Gottfried notes that the comedian had temporarily split from his wife Sylvia Fine following his affair with Eve Arden. Fine wrote many of her husband's songs and she refused to be involved with A Song Is Born. As a result, Danny Kaye "did not--he would not--find anyone else to write material for him."

Benny Goodman as a professor.

Without the fabulous music and a fully functional Kaye, the second half of A Song Is Born lumbers along toward its obvious climax. To her credit, Virginia Mayo tries her best to keep the film afloat and occasionally succeeds (as in the "yum-yum" scene).

It was Mayo's fourth film with Danny Kaye, having teamed with him previously in Wonder Man, The Kid From Brooklyn, and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. She even had a bit part in Kaye's Up in Arms. By the way, Tony Cochran, who played the villain in A Song Is Born, appeared with Mayo six times (including The Best Years of Our Lives and White Heat).

In addition to its plot, A Song Is Born shares other connections with Ball of Fire. Howard Hawks directed both films and Gregg Tolan served as his cinematographer. Mary Field also plays Miss Totten, the benefactor of the music foundation, in both films. Hawks expressed little enthusiasm for A Song Is Born, claiming that he made it only because Sam Goldwyn "pestered" and "annoyed" him into it.

Fortunately for Danny Kaye, his best films--White Christmas and The Court Jester--were still to come. And if A Song Is Born is nothing but a footnote in his long career, it's an still an interesting one that documents some of the great jazz and popular music instrumentalists of its era.



Link Souce

Tweet

Subscribe to receive free email updates: