The Ghost [Horror movie]
The Ghost (1963) starring Barbara Steele, Peter Baldwin In short, the Italian horror movie The Ghost plays like a mediocre episode of The Twilight Zone.… Read More »The Ghost [Horror movie]
Side by Side [song lyrics]
Song lyrics to Side by Side (1927) by Harry Woods
Side by Side was composed by Harry Woods. He wrote numerous 1920s standards, including “When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along)“, “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover“, and “Try a Little Tenderness“.
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Wouldn’t It Be Loverly [song lyrics]
Song lyrics to Wouldn’t It Be Loverly (1958), by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, written for their Broadway play My Fair Lady
Wouldn’t It Be Loverly is sung by Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle and her street friends. It expresses Eliza’s wish for a better life.
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers,
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is a wonderful Hollywood biography. It tells the story of the husband-and-wife ballroom dancing team Vernon and Irene Castle.
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Gaslight
Gaslight (1944) starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Angela Lansbury
In Gaslight, after her aunt is mysteriously killed, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) is sent to Italy to receive opera training. Being charmed by Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer) she falls in love and they move in together in London. Soon Paula begins to notice strange things happening, as Gregory is slowly manipulating her into believing she is insane.
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Why Can’t the English Learn to Speak [song lyrics]
Song lyrics to Why Can’t the English Learn to Speak? (1956), Music by Frederick Loewe, Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, performed by Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady
Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison): Look at her, a prisoner of the gutter,
Condemned by every syllable she utters
By right she should be taken out and hung,
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.
Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn): Aaoooww!
Bring on those Wonderful Men [song lyrics]
Song lyrics to Bring on those Wonderful Men, Music by Roger Edens, Lyrics by Earl K. Brent, Sung by Virginia O’Brien in Ziegfeld Follies
Bring on those Wonderful Men is a parody of Here’s to the Girls in Ziegfeld Follies. It’s a very funny song by Virginia O’Brien, in her trademark stone faced style.
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Play a Simple Melody [song lyrics]
Song lyrics to Play a Simple Melody (1914) by Irving Berlin
Play a Simple Melody is a song from the 1914 musical, Watch Your Step, words and music by Irving Berlin. The show was the first stage musical that Berlin wrote. The one song from it that is well-remembered today is Play a Simple Melody, one of the few true examples of counterpoint in American popular music. It’s a melody running against a second melody, each with independent lyrics.
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My Fair Lady
In My Fair Lady, pompous phonetics professor Henry Higgins transforms Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney working-class girl into a cultured member of high society. But what then?
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The Champ
The Champ (1931) starring Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper
The Champ – the original father-son tale remains one of the all-time great tearjerkers. Wallace Beery plays the washed-up prizefighter making a ring comeback to provide for his son.
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