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Post by bravomailer on Nov 8, 2018 3:49:26 GMT
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
They Shall Have Music (1939) ā tough kids take music lessons. Appearance by Jascha Heifetz.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 8, 2018 4:12:12 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 8, 2018 4:17:26 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 8, 2018 4:22:55 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 8, 2018 4:53:43 GMT
Rhapsody in Blue (1945) Starring Robert Alda (in his film debut) as Gershwin, the film features a few of Gershwin's acquaintances (including Paul Whiteman, Al Jolson, and Oscar Levant) playing themselves. Alexis Smith and Joan Leslie play fictional women in Gershwin's life, Morris Carnovsky and Rosemary De Camp play Gershwin's parents, and Herbert Rudley portrays Ira Gershwin.
Oscar Levant recorded most of the piano playing in the movie, and dubbed Alda's piano playing. Both the Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris are performed nearly completely, the "Rhapsody..." debut of 1924 conducted, as it was originally, by Whiteman himself. Trivia : The characters played respectively by Alexis Smith, Joan Leslie, and Albert Bassermann are fictional. There was no love triangle between Gershwin and the two women, and Gershwin's music teacher did not die the night that "Rhapsody in Blue" premiered. The scene in which Gershwin is fired by the music publisher for playing his own music is also fictional. However, most of the other characters in the film did exist, including Max Dreyfus, and Anne Brown, who played Bess in the original "Porgy and Bess" is still alive ca. early 2009.
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Post by vegalyra on Nov 8, 2018 14:56:57 GMT
This is a somewhat forgotten Disney live action film. I always thought it was fun as a kid.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2018 16:39:05 GMT
Born to Be Blue (2015)
Ray (2004)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2018 16:45:54 GMT
The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
Great Balls of Fire! (1989)
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 8, 2018 16:47:59 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2018 16:51:03 GMT
Four Minutes (2006)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2018 16:55:02 GMT
The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 8, 2018 17:00:39 GMT
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Post by koskiewicz on Nov 8, 2018 18:32:24 GMT
Yellow Submarine
Allegro non Troppo
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Post by teleadm on Nov 8, 2018 19:21:00 GMT
Stewart Granger as the famous, and notorious, Italian violinist Nicola Paganini in The Magic Bow 1946.
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 8, 2018 23:23:10 GMT
Bobby Eroica Dupea
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 9, 2018 1:52:24 GMT
"The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski to lead them in a concert that leads to a radio contract. "
The only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year not to have any acting nominations. Won for best score - 4 total nominations. www.imdb.com/title/tt0029347/?ref_=ttawd_awd_tt
I watched it and had no idea it had ever been nominated for anything !
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 9, 2018 2:59:00 GMT
One of the most memorable scenes in any movie. Yes, it is. Bobby was meant to be a musician but was too much the rebel and dilettante to devote himself to music - or anything for that matter.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2018 9:54:10 GMT
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
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Post by london777 on Nov 9, 2018 14:04:04 GMT
Dangerous Moonlight (1941) dir: Brian Desmond Hurst was a low-budget WWII propaganda film about a Polish concert pianist (Anton Walbrook) who is also in the Polish Air Force. He falls in love with an American reporter, played by English actress Sally Gray, and escapes to the USA. His dilemma: return to Europe to fight or further his musical career in the USA? Pretty routine stuff aimed, like so many British WWII films at encouraging US involvement in the war. The only memorable feature is the "Warsaw Concerto" by Richard Addinsell which remains a standard of "pop classical" concerts to this day.
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Post by marshamae on Nov 9, 2018 14:32:26 GMT
Intermezzo Gaslight Impromptu
Iād love a Real film about Gershwin and the Warburgs.
Almost any film with Oscar Levant has material about musicians performing, rehearsing, compos8ng.
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