Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will have a different song to sing...
...Song of Scheherazade (Universal-International) is another of those amiable semi-burlesques in Technicolor which generally feature either beauteous Maria Montez jouncing down a stairway or beauteous Yvonne de Carlo dancing. This time it is Miss de Carlo's turn. A refined girl, she nevertheless heads the floor show in a tidy sort of Moroccan dive in order to support her mother (Eve Arden), a lady wastrel. She is rescued from these questionable surroundings by a sailor named...
Nicky Rimsky-Korsakov (Jean Pierre Aumont). Nicky, it seems, is so crazy over music that he cannot notice girls, even if it rains girls. But during his brief shore leave, Miss de Carlo inspires him to compose Song of India, Flight of the Bumblebee, Hymn to the Sun and practically every other famed achievement of the composer's lifetime except his streamlining of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunoff. The Metropolitan Opera's Charles Kullman, as the ship's tenor doctor, sings some of the compositions; Miss de Carlo dances several more. There is also an energetic duel...
...Only other Book-of-the-Month selection from a U.S. university press: Wa-Kon-tah (Oklahoma), co-choice for November 1939. The Literary Guild has never picked a university press book. * Not to be confused with Iowa Poet Paul Engle (American Song, West of Midnight...
...through August and all the essential qualities of a hit are already apparent in "Brigadoon." It has style, it has good singers, it has excellent dancers, colorful costumes, some interesting music, and a load of fine lyrics. In the face of these qualities, its ordinary ending, some conventionally staged song numbers, and a couple of stock musical comedy characters become minor, if irritating defects...