Word: dubin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is one further quality that Rodgers brings to his music which perhaps gives him the edge over such peers as Irving Berlin, Arthur Schwartz, Walter Donaldson, Kern, Youmans and great and gaudy Hollywood hack teams like Warren & Dubin and Robin & Rainger. Richard Rodgers is not only the master of a tonal palette filled with surprise and delight, but he is constantly at search for new forms across the known boundaries of his medium. The dream music for Peggy-Ann, and twelve years later for Married An Angel, the "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" ballet music for On Your Toes...
Twentieth Century-Fox boasts that its Lew Pollack (Charmaine, Two Cigarets in the Dark) can produce a song on any subject if he is given an hour's notice. But Warners' boast is bigger. Musical cinemas seemed doomed until Harry Warren and Al Dubin turned out the tunes for Forty-Second Street, went on to do Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933, Wonder Bar, Twenty Million Sweethearts. Fortnight ago their Lullaby of Broadway (Gold Diggers of 1935) was voted the best song of the year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (TIME, March...
...cinema dealing with songwriters might well take Warren & Dubin for two type characters. Composer Warren is nearsighted and thin, suffers from nervous indigestion, a relic of the days of silent pictures when he played the piano in the old Vitagraph studios, attempted to provide an atmosphere that would inspire the actors...
...Dubin is heavy, careless, good-natured, writes a lyric on any old scrap of paper. He cheerfully recalls the days when he peddled his verses for $10 to $15 apiece, finally gained recognition with Just a Girl That Men Forget (1923). Hollywood salaries have tempted many of its songwriters to become "country gentlemen," raise blooded roosters, olive trees, avocados. Dubin recently bought an elaborate estate in San Fernando Valley where he still chews tobacco, sucks his corncob pipe...
...music exists solely to goad listeners into buying silence. In Caliente is dull only in its more expensive moments. Even Busby Berkeley could not do much with Mexican dance effects that has not already been done and probably the most devastating thing to be said about the Warren and Dubin music is that there are times when it sounds as if it had been written by somebody else. Good scenes: Miss Del Rio saving O'Brien from drowning in the pool into which he dived to pull her out; the "Lady in Red" number; the anatomical direction...