Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Birth of a Song...
...three years ago in a personnel waiting center in a California Seabee base. Said Joe: "I know the less I do the less I wants do." Said Saul: "Yeah? well, the more I do the more I want to do." By nightfall, he recollects, the decision to write a song was definite...
...Nobody acts. And it was cast by an anonymous prankster with a macabre sense of humor, who must have sniggered as he conjured up Henreid, Hepburn, Daniell, and Bob Walker as grotesque caricatures of Robert and Clara Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms. By all the orthodox criteria of movie criticism, "Song of Love" is eminently eligible for that glib type of verbal massage so familiar to readers of Wolcott Gibbs...
...there is the music of Schumann, Brahmns, and Liszt as a backbone to hold up the pulp surrounding it. At certain points, "Song of Love" reveals immense potentialities for the development of screen musical biographics in terms of a blind audience. This is a step forward. Forgetting the Kern and Porter films, one may look with encouragement at the progress made from the lives of chopin, Schubert, and Gershwin to that of Schumann. Auditory progress, to be sure, but still progress...
...Song of Love. A gentle film, with music, about Clara and Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms; with Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid and Robert Walker (TIME...