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A Song is Born (1948)
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Reviews Counted:5
Fresh:2
Rotten:3
Average Rating:4.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: A mere six years after Howard Hawks made "Ball of Fire" with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, Producer Samuel Goldwyn engaged Hawks to make a new, musical version of the story, this time starring... A mere six years after Howard Hawks made "Ball of Fire" with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, Producer Samuel Goldwyn engaged Hawks to make a new, musical version of the story, this time starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. Kaye plays Professor Hobart Frisbee, a naïve music scholar who, together with six other musicologists, is studying a strange new phenomenon known as jazz. While doing his research, Frisbee meets gangster moll Honey Swanson, a beautiful, tough-talking night club entertainer on the lam, who decides that the house where the seven scholars live would make for a great hide-out. So while the cops are searching for her to testify against her beau, she goes home with Frisbee and the gang. And Honey turns out to be just what this group of stodgy professors needs... as the house starts swinging and rocking with the sounds of jazz. That is, until her gangster boyfriend comes around to ruin the party. [More]
Starring: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Hugh Herbert, Steve Cochran
Starring: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Hugh Herbert, Steve Cochran, Felix Bressart, Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman
Director: Howard Hawks
Director: Howard Hawks
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Screenwriter: Harry Tugend
Composer: Emil Newman
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Reviews for A Song is Born
The whole picture, which is done in color (we don't know why), reflects the tedium resulting from the restriction of Mr. Kaye.
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