Word: coslow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which ran on Broadway in 1927, Swing High, Swing Low somehow fails to give the spectacle of a wind instrument expert keeping a stiff upper-lip the emotional intensity which it no doubt deserves. Songs like Panamania and I Hear a Call to Arms, by Al Siegel and Sam Coslow, are appealing but hardly likely to be rated as classics by addicts of swing music. Vastly over-ballyhooed by Paramount, the picture's chief virtues are providing pretty Carole Lombard with a few comedy lines almost up to the standard of the ones she had in My Man Godfrey...
Fred Astaire for her, she does all her dances alone, except for one rumba with Cyril Wells. Pleasant, unobtrusive songs by Sam Coslow and Harry Woods include It's Love Again and I've Got to Dance My Way to Heaven. The story, an absurd fable, concerns a society-gossip columnist {Sonnie Hale, Miss Matthews' husband in real life) who has trouble finding a celebrity to write about. A friend (Robert Young) invents one, a glamorous Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, proficient dancer and tiger-shooter just back from India. Miss Matthews, having failed to impress a sleepy...
...gone to some trouble to prove there is still entertainment in Graustarkian romance. It took two plays, four playwrights and a screen writer with some help from Director Frank Tuttle to supply the story. The music, nice but not gaudy, was rewritten three times, final credit going to Sam Coslow. Best tune: "Dancing the Viennese...